Regional Bargaining Report # 58 Thursday, April 7, 2016 Bargaining continued this week in Philadelphia. The Union passed proposals related to a few of the Company’s demands regarding Independent Medical Exams, Evaluative Observations and Municipal and State Leave Laws. The Company rejected rational arguments on each of these proposals.

Regional Bargaining Report # 57 Friday, April 1, 2016 Bargaining continued this week in Philadelphia. Several Union proposals were passed related to bringing work back into the bargaining units. The proposals included a Call Sharing Agreement that would not only bring work back to the bargaining unit but back to America.

Frontier completed its acquisition of Verizon’s (NYSE: VZ) wireline properties in California, Florida and Texas on Friday, but it appears that the initial switchover has been bumpy with a number of users telling local media outlets they were seeing issues with their broadband and video services.

        According to a leaked screenshot sent to us by one of our loyal readers, Verizon has a number of new $20 upgrade fees that will take …

Verizon is set to complete a sale of its wireline phone, Internet, and TV networks in California, Florida, and Texas to Frontier Communications. The $10.54 billion transaction, announced in February 2015, has received all the necessary regulatory approvals and is scheduled to be finalized March 31.

Twenty U.S. Senators are standing with working families and against Verizon’s greed, urging the company to negotiate a fair contract covering 29,000 CWA and IBEW members in Verizon East.

Regional Bargaining Report # 56 Thursday, March 24, 2016 The Mid Atlantic Bargaining Team met in Philadelphia this week. The Unions passed several modified proposals attempting to address both the concerns of the company and the needs of our members.

Regional Bargaining Report # 55 Friday, March 18, 2016 As bargaining in Philadelphia resumed this week, high level discussions took place in an attempt to find a way to move negotiations toward a successful resolution.

CWA District 2-13 Vice President Ed Mooney will be speaking at our CWA Town Hall Meeting on Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 7pm. The address is: IBEW Local 26 Meeting Hall 4371 Parliament Place, Lanham Md. 20706 Vice President Mooney will also be speaking on Wednesday March 23, 2016 at 5pm.

We will be doing “informational picketing” in the work places on Thursday 3-17-16 from 7:15am-7:45am wear “RED”. We will be leafletting the Verizon Wireless store on Sat. 3-19-16 from 10am-2pm. The address is 1314 F St. N.W. Wash. D.C. 20004.