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WV Locals Unite for Contract Negotiations
Two West Virginia Legacy employee Locals, 2001 out of St. Mary’s and 2276 out of Bluefield, will be in formal collective bargaining talks this month.
Formal collective bargaining talks between Legacy employees from Local 2001 and Frontier Communications began on Monday, July 25 just a week before the collective bargaining agreement expired on July 31.
The talks continued through the week with the company presenting proposals to the union, the union responding with additional information, proposals, counter proposals and data requests. CWA has argued for some time that one week is not sufficient time to bargain a contract, yet Frontier continues to schedule negotiations in tight, unviable timeframes. As a result CWA and Frontier first agreed to extend the Local 2001 to August 12 and then to September 1.
The union’s bargaining committee believes the brief extension will allow time for needed responses to our data requests and to prepare counter proposals on critical issues.
Another round of talks will begin when the contract of West Virginia Local 2276 will expire on August 20. As another contract is set to expire Frontier has issued strong statements about their intentions to lower standards for all workers at Frontier. CWA won’t forget that while Frontier is trying to lower standards for people who make the company run 24/7 the executives are raking in top tier salaries and CEO Maggie Wilderotter got a 77% raise!
“We have said going into this round of bargaining that parity is our number one issue,” said CWA International Representative Elaine Harris. “We are not going backwards, for the former Verizon workers in 2013, but will negotiate to bring up the Legacy workers’ standards.”
“In order to accomplish this all Frontier workers along with our brothers and sisters at IBEW Local 317 must remain united and let the company know we will not be divided. We are union brothers and sisters, standing together to raise the standards for all Frontier workers.”
The IBEW Local 137, from Marlington and Webster Springs, West Virginia, are standing in firm solidarity with CWA through these negotiations.
Frontier Frontlines will continue to keep all members updated on these contract negotiations as events warrant.