Posted: February 7, 2013 | Author: Patton | Filed under: Announcement, Bargaining, News |
Included are the Final Bargaining Report as well as the highlights from this tentative agreement. We are including links to the previous TA, which did not ratify, for ease of access.
Highlights to the Current TA
Highlights to the Failed TA
Final Bargaining Report for the Current TA
Final Bargaining Report for The Failed TA
Posted: February 6, 2013 | Author: Patton | Filed under: Announcement, Bargaining |
At 2:23 PM on February 6th, 2013 CWA Local 6203 President David Patton was notified through e-mail that there would be a conference call for all District 6 Local Presidents at 3:30 PM. On the conference call, President Patton was notified that our Bargaining Committee has reached a new Tentative Agreement with the Company, and have chosen to use Triple A to mail ballots directly to all members. At this time, the Bargaining Committee has chosen not to disclose any information about the pending Tentative Agreement, although we are being informed that the agreement is unanimously endorsed by the Bargaining Committee.
An explanation is to be mailed to each member directly on February 7th, 2013 with ballots following on the 8th. Ballots must be returned by February 25th, 2013 so please plan accordingly. Instructions on how to vote and where to return your ballots should be included with the ballot. District 6 intends to inform Local Presidents of the highlights of the new Tentative Agreement on February 12th. These decisions have been made at the district level without any input from CWA Local 6203, and the district has declined to provide any information about the Tentative Agreement at this time. CWA Local 6203 will make available any information about this tentative agreement immediately as we receive it.
We strongly recommend that in addition to checking this web site, members monitor the District 6 website for possible information on this forthcoming Tentative Agreement, as District 6 has indicated that they intend to make information available through that source as early as today. The District 6 website can be found at district6.cwa-union.org.
CWA Local 6203 is deeply disappointed that our Bargaining Committee has chosen to ignore the ballots from the previous TA, which clearly stated “I understand that a NO vote means CWA/AT&T would engage in traditional bargaining.” and has instead rushed to another Tentative Agreement, seemingly without regard for the desires of the dues-paying members.
President Patton is fully committed to closely monitoring this developing situation and immediately posting all new information as it becomes available. President Patton would like to express his apologies to our membership. He feels that our members should be better informed at this time. When the membership spoke and voted down the previous TA, his recommendation to everyone in District 6 on a Presidents Followup call was to return to the members for additional input on what they would like to see in further bargaining. We regret that District 6 was unable to take the time to meet this request. On that call, District 6 Vice President Claude Cummings expressed his intention to return to early bargaining without delay.
Posted: January 30, 2013 | Author: Patton | Filed under: Announcement, Bargaining |
The District 6 Tentative Agreement did not ratify. District 6 has declined to disclose votes by local, stating that the vote was ‘close’. More information will be posted as it becomes available.
There was a Presidents Call at 4:00 PM on 1/30/2013 to discuss this, at which time our Local President David Patton and others on the call requested time be made available for our members to provide feedback on what changes they would like to see as the contract does not expire until April 6th. At the time of the requests, District 6 Vice President Claude Cummings indicated that the bargaining team intends to return to the table tomorrow and would like to quickly come to a new tentative agreement.
Posted: January 29, 2013 | Author: Patton | Filed under: Announcement, Bargaining |
The official vote total for 6203 is 41 yes votes, 122 no votes.
Posted: January 8, 2013 | Author: Patton | Filed under: Announcement, Bargaining |
District Six has made the following documents available, and CWA Local 6203 feels that it is very important for our members to have a chance to review these documents prior to the upcoming ratification vote.
Final Bargaining Report
Negotiating Report, 1 of 2
Negotiating Report, 2 of 2
Posted: January 3, 2013 | Author: Patton | Filed under: News |
The Texas Democratic Women and Lubbock Community Theatre will be presenting the Texas Premier of If A Door Opens. If A Door Opens is a one-woman play about labor leader Frances Perkins, who worked to improve all of our lives. There will be three showings of this important play, January 24th-26th, each to be held at 7:30 PM.
Posted: January 3, 2013 | Author: Patton | Filed under: Announcement, Bargaining |
CWA 6203’s local Tentative Agreement Explanation Meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 at 6:30 PM. This meeting will be led by CWA District 6 staff representative Charlie Torres. Please make every effort to attend.
Posted: January 3, 2013 | Author: Patton | Filed under: News |
District Six has released corrections to the highlights of the upcoming tentative agreement. You can view the document as it was originally released, as well as the amended version on the CWA 6203 announcement of the highlights, which can be found at this link.
Posted: January 2, 2013 | Author: Patton | Filed under: Announcement, Bargaining |
District 6 Vice President Claude Cummings, Jr. will be hosting an AT&T Southwest contract explanation Town Hall on Tuesday, January 8th, 2013 at 7:00 PM Central Time. You can register to be a part of this town hall call by texting D6ATT to 69866 or by visiting district6.cwa-union.org/townhall. You will be able to listen to the Town Hall online at the same address.
Posted: January 1, 2013 | Author: Patton | Filed under: News |
DECEMBER 31 , 2012
DEAR LOCAL 6203 MEMBERS,
WE ARE ABOUT TO COMPLETE ANOTHER YEAR AND ANOTHER CONTRACT WITH AT&T CORE. WHAT AN INTERESTING YEAR IT HAS BEEN, ESPECIALLY THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS. OUR REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING HAS BEEN CHANGED TO JANUARY 8TH, 2013 DUE TO THE HOLIDAY. PLEASE PLAN TO ATTEND, WE WILL BE DISCUSSING SEVERAL ISSUES, INCLUDING THE TEMPORARY AGREEMENT (TA) REACHED DECEMBER 22, 2012 BY OUR BARGAINING TEAM AND AT&T (CORE). THIS TA IS POSTED ON OUR WEBSITE, AS WELL AS THE COMPANY’S AND BOTH SAY THE SAME THING.
FOLLOWING ARE A FEW FACTS THAT WE HAVE CONCERNING THE TA;
- IT WAS BARGAINED BY OUR BARGAINING COMMITTEE AND THE COMPANY BETWEEN DEC 8th AND DEC 21st 2012
- MYSELF AND OTHER DELEGATE(S) (TBA) FROM OUR LOCAL WILL ATTEND AN EXPLANATION MEETING IN DALLAS JAN 7th,2013 WHERE WE SHOULD RECEIVE MORE INFORMATION AND GET SOME QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
- THE CURRENT TA IS NOT AUTOMATICALLY THE NEW CONTRACT AND MUST BE VOTED ON BY THE MEMBERSHIP OF DISTRICT 6. THE BARGAINING COMMITTEE, AND THE COMPANY WANT THIS VOTE IN BY JAN 30th2013.
- THE CURRENT TA THAT WE RECENTLY RECEIVED SEEMS TO CLOSLY RESEMBLE THE CONTRACT OF DISTRICT 3, THIS IS BASED ON THE LIMITED INFORMATION THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE CONCERNING OUR TA. THIS CERTAINLY DOES NOT MEAN THE CURRENT TA IS GOING TO BE OUR CONTRACT, NOR DOES IT IMPLY THAT OUR COMMITTEE AND THE COMPANY ARE TRYING TO PATTERN BARGAIN THE DISTRICT 6 (OUR) CONTRACT TO RESEMBLE THE OTHER CONTRACTS ALREADY RATIFIED. I HAVE FAITH IN OUR BARGAINING COMMITTEE, AND I AM SURE WE WILL RECEIVE AN EXPLANATION OF WHY ALL THE INFORMATION FROM EVERY DISTRICT SEEMS TO BE SO UNIFORM. THIS TOPIC WILL BE DISCUSSED AT THE EXPLANATION MEETING 1/7/13 IN DALLAS. MYSELF AS WELL AS THE OTHER LOCAL 6203 DELEGATES WILL SHARE ALL OF OUR FINDINGS AT THE MEMBERSHIP MEETING 1/8/13.
Please email any questions you would like to ask concerning the TA to the Union Hall, @ local@cwa6203.org . We will endeavor to present them to the bargaining committee and get an answer. The meeting on 1/8/13 will not be the Local explanation/ratification vote meeting, but you will be provided all of the information we learn from the meeting in Dallas the day before. With the information we currently have there is no way to make an educated vote. After the District explanation meeting 1/7/13 and the membership meeting 1/8/13 we will have the Local Explanation/Ratification vote meeting approximately 10-12 days later in the hopes we will all have sufficient information to make a well educated vote. Visit our website frequently for any new information that may arise.
Please come to the membership meeting prepared to ask questions and express concerns relating to any local issues, rumors or other occurrences you may want to address or discuss. Myself, the local officers and e-board will be available to provide feedback and or answers. We will then discuss the core contract, the TA, and the findings and new information from the Dallas meeting.
Sincerely,
David Patton Pres. CWA Local 6203
website– cwa6203.org
Anyone with concerns or questions may call me anytime @806 543 5355 dp
