There have been some significant changes in QWEST’s cell phone/pager arena. With the change over to the Sprint network service has, believe it or not become worse. The ROAM word pops up constantly, which results in a strange voice requesting a credit card number to complete the call; or there is just no service, period. In some areas pagers are being taken away in lieu of “text messaging,” which, again, is dependent on a viable wireless system, which, again, is a catch “22:” one won’t work because the other doesn’t. “Ma” QWEST in her infinite wisdom is beginning to realize that this program isn’t working and is returning pagers. Click to continue »
November, 2004
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Safety Corner November/December 2004
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2004Good and Welfare
Monday, November 1st, 2004Service Anniversaries November; Brian Pope 25, Mark Niehaus 25, Norm Holt 25. Craig Mendenhall 5, Joshua Davis 5, Eric Hartlieb 5, Christopher Dubisette 5, Steve Heward 5, Brian Smith 5, James Williams 5, Steve Doyle 5, Harry Berg 5, Gil Montoya 5, Ryan Fuqua 5. December; Mike Fuqua 30. Click to continue »
Association of USWest Retirees
Monday, November 1st, 2004A visit to http://www.uswestretiree.org/ will inform you of many issues and situations that effect you, a USWest retiree. There are retirement, legislative, and networking links, plus many other helps. Don’t be left out of the loop. You may be retired, but you are still linked to the company you left.
Avaya News
Monday, November 1st, 2004Avaya – Variable Workforce Executive Level Grievance status 11/19/2004
OPT IN/OPT OUT Grievance:
We just had the first arbitration hearing on the issue yesterday. The final (hopefully) hearing is scheduled for January 5th and 6th. The executive level grievance only covers the 1st and 2nd quarters. After we get the results of that, the issue of payment for the remaining quarters in which the Union did not agree to Opt out of certain GCAs will be addressed. As we get new information, it will be posted on the C&T Web site under the Avaya bargaining unit. Click to continue »
Conventional Wisdom
Monday, November 1st, 2004by Rick Beaver
Due to an editorial oversight, Rick’s article was foreshortened in the previous newsletter. We rerun it now in its entirety. Mea Culpa Ed.
CWA Annual Convention
At the end of August, I was given the opportunity to attend the National CWA Convention in Anaheim,”Kaaleefornia”. My preconception of a convention, like many of yours, was too many hours of sitting, listening to boring speeches and not enough hours of evening revelry and fun! Or too much of each! Maybe I got lucky. Maybe I went to the one convention in a hundred years that was interesting, informative and involving. Click to continue »
Free Money For Your College-Age Children
Monday, November 1st, 2004Thirty partial college scholarships of $3,000 each are being offered for the 2005-2006 school year. Winners, selected in a lottery drawing, also will receive second-year scholarships of the same amount contingent upon satisfactory academic accomplishment Click to continue »
President’s Corner
Monday, November 1st, 2004Where has the time gone? It is almost Thanksgiving and like many of you I feel like it is still summer. The elections are over, Halloween has come and gone and we are getting close to the New Year. What the 2005 year will bring is unsure. Will we still be Qwest? Will we be purchased or absorbed by another company.? Click to continue »