During the last weather event in October, Qwest again showed its inability to “get organized” and follow the established Storm/Power Down Plan. Even with a DOSH complaint concerning the company’s failure in the very impactive storm earlier this year, running its judicial course, Qwest management failed miserably. Click to continue »
October, 2007
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Safety Corner October/November/December 2007
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007Service Anniversaries and Retirements
Monday, October 1st, 2007October: Kenny Kenyon, Net Tech, 10 years
November: Vincent Torres, Net Tech, 10 yrs; Frank Haislett, Net Tech, 10 yrs; Eric Riemer, CDT, 10 years
December: David Moore, Net Tech, 25 yrs; Michael Samuels, Net Tech, 10 yrs; Richard Guthery, Net Tech, 10 yrs; Eric Tomlinson, Net Tech 10 yrs
Retirements: December: Steve Lampman, Mechanic, Trafton B Garage, 30 years
Steve has been an invaluable shop mechanic and will be truly missed. Please join us in congratulating him on his retirement!
Best of Luck to All!!!!
Local Druthers List
Monday, October 1st, 2007With fiber jobs coming available after the first of the year, it is imperative if you have an interest in one of these jobs that you update your druthers list.
These can be downloaded and printed out by your managers.
After filling out all of your updates, return the form to Kaare Gimse in Trafton A.
Dennis Garrett will be working with Kaare on the druthers committee and keeping track of any changes.
LEADERSHIP TRAINING
Monday, October 1st, 2007Recently the local sent two stewards to Leadership Training, Kevin Lathrop and Merrine Pasquale, attended the week long session. We asked them to give a brief overview of their experience. Click to continue »
Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Monday, October 1st, 2007The Foundation is tremendously grateful to all our friends around the globe who have helped the Foundation bring the promise of a healthy future to children and families living with HIV/AIDS. We wish to recognize certain individuals, organizations, foundations, and companies whose commitment to helping children is truly extraordinary. These individuals are our heroes – and we are proud to call them allies and friends in our fight against pediatric HIV/AIDS. Our work together is making a real difference and we look forward to everything we will be able to accomplish together in the future. Click to continue »
Union Plus Scholarship
Monday, October 1st, 2007The 2008 Union Plus Scholarship applications are now available for download. To date, over 1,700 union families have received $2.4 million in education assistance. The application deadline is January 31, 2008. Download a scholarship application at: www.unionplus.org/benefits/education/scholarships/scholarshipApp.pdf
A MESSAGE FROM THE CHIEF STEWARD
Monday, October 1st, 2007Dear Fellow Members,
Well its time once again to start preparing for our next contract negotiations. Now you might be thinking, Dude! That’s ten months from now! Yes, you’re right it is ten months, but the time is going to fly by and it will be here before we know it. Click to continue »
Fiber To The Node
Monday, October 1st, 2007Qwest is making preparations to expand its Fiber To The Node project. This could mean good things for us as employees as well. If this project is successful, it could mean more business and more job opportunities. Click to continue »
President’s Corner
Monday, October 1st, 2007The telecommunications industry has changed dramatically over the last several years. Most of us, who work for the old RBOC (Regional Bell Operating Company as they were described after Divestiture 1984), have seen it, smelled it, and lived it. Our local is currently composed of 3 bargaining units. Two of those bargaining units, the classic AT&T (long lines) have 3 employees left. The other, AVAYA has 2 members remaining in our local. Qwest is now at an all time low, 219 members in good standing, 10 agency fee payers, 5 pending, and 2 cash payers. There are currently 99 members and agency fee payers with 25 years or more. There are 35 members currently with 30 or more years of service and are pension eligible. There is a tremendous amount of history inherent there with our senior most members. We have persevered through several strikes, divestiture, surpluses, a one day “wildcat strike”, a hostile takeover, a corrupt CEO and we are still here. Despite what management does, or says, we are still here. We do the work! Click to continue »