T-Mobile Intends to Close Seven Call Centers

Please add your voice to the outcry against T-Mobile’s decision to close seven call centers here in the United States, eliminating 3,300 jobs right here at home and shipping them to Asia and Central America.

You can make your voice heard at the CWA National Website. We encourage our members to participate, and ask your friends and family to do the same. There is time to save these jobs, but T-Mobile needs to hear from all of us!


Company-Union Working Relations Committee Meeting

The next meeting of the Company-Union Working Relations Committee will be on Friday, May 4th 2012. If you have recommendations for meeting agenda items, please attend our upcoming membership meeting on Tuesday, April 10th at 6:30 PM to make your recommendations.


Mobility Contract Ratifies

At this time we are being told that 70% of the votes cast by locals were in favor of contract ratification. While we do not have access to any hard numbers at the time of this posting, district 6 is announcing that the 2012 Tentative Agreement has been ratified and will be our new contract.


APRIL EBOARD & MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS

Please remember that the Eboard & Membership Meetings will be held on Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at the following times.

Eboard Meeting 5:30pm

Membership Meeting 6:30pm

We look forward to seeing you there and providing updates.


Local Contract Ratification Results

We have finished counting the contract ratification votes cast by members of our local. Lubbock has voted no to the tentative agreement. The count of the vote was 122 against, with 66 for.

District-wide voting continues, with a deadline of the close of business on April third. We do not expect to have a final tally until April Fourth at the earliest and ask our members to be patient as final results may take longer. We will keep you informed.


Contract Ratification Votes

Contract Ratification Votes will be being held on Thursday, 3/29/2012 and Friday, 3/30/2012 at the Mobility Call Center and both COR stores; you will have an opportunity to vote at your job site on these days. Please make every effort to make your voice heard: vote! Note: You must be a member of the union in order to vote.


Draft Contract and Supporting Documentation

In advance of the local contract explanation meeting, we are making documentation available to our membership. These documents are in PDF format and will require Adobe reader or similar.

Bargaining Committee Letter of Endorsement and Summary of Changes

Tentative Agreement

Mobility Transfer Plan


Contract Explanations and Ratification Votes

As previously mentioned, we will have contract explanation meetings at the Union Hall at 405 50th Street on Thursday, 3/22/2012. The meetings will be from 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM and 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

The district will be holding a explanation conference call on Sunday, 3/25/2012 at 7:00 PM. It is not anticipated that there will be time allotted for questions on this call.

We are asking our local membership to submit all questions they have about this tentative agreement to the local as soon as possible, but no later than Wednesday, 3/28/2012.

We will hold our ratification votes at the Mobility Call Center on Thursday, 3/29/2012 and Friday, 3/30/2012. We are spreading the vote out over two days to make sure that everyone has a chance to vote.


Local Contract Explanation Meeting

We will be holding contract explanation meetings at the local Thursday, 3/22/2012 between 9:00AM-11:00AM and 6:00PM-8:00PM in advance of our ratification vote. The meetings will be held at the Union Hall at 405 50th Street.


Explanation Meeting Adjourned

At this time our delegates are traveling home from the explanation meeting. In the upcoming days we will review the information disseminated at the meeting to make certain we have a full understanding of this tentative agreement in advance of a ratification vote.