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Contract Agreement Reached a Year Early at Verizon
UPDATE: Click here for more details about the contract. After spending 7 weeks on strike in 2016, we are happy to report that the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and Verizon have come to...
Early Bargaining at Verizon
As you know, our current collective bargaining agreement with Verizon does not expire until August, 2019, a little less than 15 months from now. However, Verizon, CWA and IBEW are jointly...
Safety Tip for Those Who Climb Poles
I am asking every field tech to get involved in our OWN safety.
Pay them what they deserve
Verizon sends call center jobs to the Philippines where workers are paid less than $2 an hour. Now, the company is doing nothing to make sure some of those workers are even paid their full wages...
When scabs strike back
Four workers filed unfair labor practice charges against the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Communications Workers of America, alleging the unions violated their right to...
Welcome back!
Yesterday UCOMM had the privledge of putting out communications for the Communications Workers of America Local 1109 in Brooklyn. During the 7 week strike, Verizon management went on an all out tie...
Bianca brought back
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently issued a sweeping decision in the CWA’s Unfair Labor Practice charge against Verizon Wireless. They ordered that Bianca Cunningham, a Verizon...
They did it, you can too!
The union movement is coming off a big high with the recent contract agreement between the Communications Workers of America (CWA), the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and...
Ultimate form of solidarity
Strikes have a unique ability to bring out the best and worst in all of us. The worst is pretty easy to identify. We here at UCOMM Blog have been jawing off about scabs, their drug use and the...
Feds tell Verizon to bargain with the union
The U.S. Department of Labor today issued the following statement on the ongoing labor dispute involving Verizon workers. "A few days ago, U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez...