No wage increases. No job protection. The company can get rid of you with a 90 day notice and Bernie claimed he didn’t even know about any of it! When the music stops please don’t act shocked.
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What are you talking about? They aren’t spending hardly a dime in FL. Many of the new subdivisions in FL can only get Spectrum because FTR is too broke to light up new neighborhoods. And FL is barely profitable. Its not a cash cow by any stretch. VZ never even recouped its initial investment in the state. Typical brainwashed union apologist...
Hey ROLL TIDE,
Florida is such trash, and yet one of only several states that actually turn a profit for the company? And when they wanted to sell florida they had several buyers wanting us. But Frontier wanted to piecemeal us and then wanted premium instead of pennies on the dollar. Why because we turn a profit. Fiber turns a profit, because it's not regulated like copper. And FYI they are dumping loads of money into Tampa Bay adding more fiber. Are they spending money in your area?
Florida is a right to work state. Doesn't matter what month or time of year it is. You can pull out of the Union anytime you want. CBA does not circumvent Federal/State laws. Never have never will. Read your contract, stop using cliff notes. If the company balks, just tell them your going to file a charge with the NLRB & State! It's the same with your C.O.P.E. money.
(1) "Right-to-work law. ... Right-to-work laws do not aim to provide general guarantee of employment to people seeking work, but rather are a government ban on contractual agreements between employers and union employees requiring workers to pay for the costs of union representation."
Nowhere in there does it say, only the month of march can you stop paying because that's what's convenient for the union. I know many Florida workers who have dropped outside of the CBA withdraw month. Now the other delimia is once you drop and you decide to join again, you have to be voted upon in the executive board, and they WILL pull your letter to stop paying dues and everyone will know why you withdrew your dues...
How pathetic that IBEW felt it necessary to put in a hidden provision under the last VZ contract to limi or restrict when you can leave them! Bloodsuckers!!!! I’m sure they made it known to all their members that they did that?!?!?
Dropping out of the union is your option. "Contractually" you can only do that is March or April. I tried in a different month and was told as much. Thats something that was slipped into the last contract and no one was told. Educate yourself first. I'm waiting to see IF IBEW does anything this time around or not.
I’m dropping out of the Union too. All they want is my money
Do we really need a new contract? Why can’t we just keep using the old one?
Sorry Cletus but I will be cancelling my union dues in March along with many others at Zack and a Morgan streets in Tampa.
Have no fear, Cletus is here! IBEW is in daily negotiations with management and we are getting slowly getting there. Frontier wants a new contract as well. The most important thing is for everyone to keep paying their union dues. IBEW is your union.
Florida is trash bro, they ain’t negotiating because they know they are filing BK soon. You guys will be the first off the books. Over inflated house prices in Tampa, get the hell out while you can.