Organizing Update

Hundreds of Cricket Employees in Two Districts Join CWA
 
Just before the New Year dawned, 341 more Cricket employees voted to join with the rest of the retail Cricket employees in District 6 of the Communications Workers of America and become part of the CWA-AT&T Mobility family.

From Dec. 1 to Dec. 19, activists from eight District 6 locals worked together mailing out information, visiting 39 stores, many of them more than once, and educating and moving workers about CWA. And on Dec. 30, 209 out of 341 of Texas Cricket/ATTM retail employees voted to be represented by CWA.

Cricket is a prepaid wireless provider with 1,000 workers at 170 locations around the nation. When the company merged with AT&T Mobility, Cricket workers were covered by CWA's organizing rights agreement. In addition to Texas retail store and tech workers, Cricket mobile retail workers in New York, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas also have joined CWA.

Here are the names of those who worked on the campaign: Rudy Elizondo of CWA Local 6110; Jason Peavler, Adriana Guzman, Janell Zberbier, Golson McIntosh, and Steve Galindo of Local 6132; Kristie Veit, Stacey Gilmore, Andrew Ita of Local 6137; John Marshall, Aissia Triston, Sylvia Sanchez, Corina Gomez, Diana Lutz, Jesse Espinosa, Michelle Appaluccio, Ken Aden, and Judy Peace of Local 6143; Randy Agee and Jennifer Wiley of Local 6206; Steve Flores, Evelyn Smith, Martha Hernandez, Joe Stine, Nancy Barrios, Rudy Ortega, Joe Lozano Jr, Val Crabbe-Givens, Julian Goode, and Carlos Ortiz-Roman of Local 6222; Phillip Ramirez, Rudy Corona, Eddie Salinas, Edgar Gomez, Adrian Guzman, Albert Limas, Tara Schussler, Edward Rodriguez, and Aris Chapa of Local 6229; Carmen Mata, Mory Martinez, Jason Parrott, Special assignment Organizer Yolanda Anderson and Staff Representatives Charlie Torres and Stephanie Collier of Local 6733.