UNIT 7
623-204-7419
UNIT 7 ELECTIONS
Area Vice President Darrell Parrish
A Unit 7 meeting will be held to nominate and elect Area Reps for Area’s 1 and 2.
Nominations
will be taken from the floor, or in written form, at the Unit meeting. All
written nominations (the nomination and/or the second to the nomination) must be
on file with the Secretary-Treasurer’s office. The nominee must be present to
accept the nomination, or have a signed letter on file with the
Secretary-Treasurer stating they will accept the nomination. All letters must be
sent by certified mail to CWA Local 7019 C/O Secretary Treasurer, 1615 N 36th
Street, Phoenix, AZ 85008 and must be received by 4:00 pm on February 14, 2012.
DATE: Wednesday, February
15, 2012
TIME: 7:00 pm – 7:30 pm
LOCATION: CWA Union Hall - 1615 N 36th Street
Nominations
will be from 7:00pm – 7:15pm
If necessary, voting will be from 7:15pm – 7:30pm
November 2011
Hello all,
It’s been
awhile since my last Unit Report. It was fairly quiet for a few months, but with
the merger and upcoming contract negotiations, things are starting to come up
again.
At our last Unit Meeting a couple days ago, many of
these topics were discussed. Just a reminder, we have unit meetings the first
Wednesday of EVERY month at the local hall located at 1615 N. 36th Street.
The meetings start at 7:30pm, so if you are working late it still gives you an
opportunity to make the meeting. Below are some of the topics discussed,
and a brief highlight of the discussion.
GPS- We can’t have
technicians getting complacent about their GPS. We are still having technicians
being disciplined for going home during work, morning hour long coffee breaks,
and out of route issues. We also heard the company may be doing random audits to
check for speeding. That is still being looked in to.
DSL Training- The
company is starting to train I&M techs to do DSL work. We currently have a
grievance in the works for this. A couple things you need to understand is
first, the technicians getting trained are NOT going to be Broadband techs after
training. Second, if you want the company to open recs for Broadband,
having I&M techs trained to do DSL is not the way to do that. What need
would the company have to open recs, if I&M techs are doing the work anyways?
Prism TV- Looks to be a
pretty good product. Phoenix is the flagship for this. If it doesn’t work
here, the company will not roll it out anywhere else. I feel this is very
important to get done, and done correctly. If this works as expected, we should
hopefully see hiring of new technicians in the next couple years.
Contract year- This next contract negotiation will be interesting to say
the least. CenturyLink has never negotiated a contract for so many
people at once. We have information cards getting passed out at yards to
update your email and cell phone/home phone. This will be important in
getting contract updates to our members. Please fill them out, or call and
ask for one to be delivered to you.
Strike Vote- VERY
Important!!! We need EVERYONE to vote! The outside technicians
are notorious for not voting. And personally, I believe our vote is most
important. As fellow AVP Ron Fagan put it, OUR jobs can’t go anywhere. The
company can’t have some guy from another county do our job. They can’t
shut down a technician “center” and move it to another state. The company
pays attention to how we vote. If only 30% of us vote, they know we are
not solid. So, to help make sure everyone votes we are planning to have
one person at a yard collect the strike votes. Then they will either deliver
them to the hall or I will pick them up myself. Again, this is very
important and we will be discussing this topic in more in depth at the monthly
meetings.
Anyways, these were just a few of the topics discussed
at the last meeting. If you would like to find out more in depth of what was
discussed, show up to the next meeting.
Once again, FIRST Wednesday of
EVERY month. 1615 N. 36th Street. 7:30pm
Also, the AVP’s for Units 5,
6, and 7 have decided to start a Local Lottery. Every month we will be
putting money in a pot and at the monthly Unit Meetings, a name of a member of
one of those units will be drawn. If the member is present, he will win the pot.
If the member is not present, the money will roll over until the next month.
The winner of the last drawing
was Mike Chavez. Unfortunately for him, he was not present to win.
Also, we had a fellow member
donate a Netbook which will also be part of the winnings for the first person to
win. If you would like a chance to win, all you have to do is SHOW UP @
1615 N. 36th St. at 7:30pm on
the FIRST Wednesday of EVERY month!!!!!!
Hope to see you there.
Darrell Parrish
opeiu30
February 2011
Hey everyone. The last couple months have been a bit interesting with the upcoming merger. A lot of speculation and questioning has been going on about what this merger will mean to us and our jobs. As of now, CenturyLink and our Local have not sat and met to discuss what the future holds. But as new information comes about, we will get it out.
One way to stay current is to attend the monthly unit meetings. These are held the first Wednesday of each month at the union hall located at 1615 N. 36th ST. The time of these meetings is 7:30. The last few meetings have had bits of new info each time.
With this email I am sending you a list of grievances filed in our unit for 2010 and the results of those. You will notice that QJD grievances started to drop off at the end of the year. And so far in 2011, there have been only a handful of QJD write-ups. I personally have my own ideas of how this is happening, but I don’t believe that the QJD target is somehow magically attainable. I believe the merger has some input to why technicians haven’t been written up for QJD.
One thing that has been on the rise for write-ups is motor vehicle incidents. We need to be careful out there. We are driving all day so caution needs to be had. Last year, we had no safety rodeo’s. This was brought to the attention of management along with increasing accidents. Management has committed to getting these done soon.
As always, if you have any questions or concerns you can call me at 623-204-7419. If I don’t answer, most of the time I will get back to you the same day.
Darrell Parrish
September 2010
Hello all,
We have had a lot of things happening the past few months. Probably the most
talked about, the merger with Century Tel. We have met with Larry North and
Frank Simonson to discuss QJD. There has been a termination for QJD. There are
some recycled policies coming from management regarding repeats, quality, and
QJD discipline. On October 6th, we will be having a Unit Meeting at the Union
Hall. We will be discussing all of these topics and more. Please show up for
this information. The address to the hall is 1615 N. 36th St. in Phoenix. The
time of the meeting is 7:30pm.
Something has recently come to my attention and I think it should be shared with
all the members. Let me first start by saying that as Union employees, you have
higher expectations to do a quality job. You are expected to complete a job the
way it was intended to be done. That doesn't mean do the bare minimum and leave
the crap work for the next tech who goes out after you. It's not fair for
another tech to have to finish your job, and it's not fair for another tech to
have to put up with angry customers because you didn't want to take the time to
do it right.
Now you can add one more reason to why you need to do it right the first time. I
recently found out a technician in the east valley has been taking pictures of
other techs work and sending them to management. Without contacting the tech to
find out why the job site was left the way it was, he decided management needed
to see this work. Sometimes there may be circumstances that prevent you from
doing something which really should be done. But no attempt to find this out was
made. If you run into an issue with another technicians work, talk to them
yourself or have me talk to the tech. Once the tech has been talked to, it
shouldn't happen again. If it does, then the tech cant say he didn't know. Let's
get this problem taken care of before management has to get involved any more
than it has.
I am also attaching a list of grievances filed and met on for the first half of
this year. This same list should be hanging on your union boards. It will be
updated shortly and passed out.
Once again, please attend the union meeting on October 6th.
In unity,
Darrell Parrish
opeiu30
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