Check your emails , all employees have to be vac or be suspended no payment
- 1,2021 cut off date
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Anyone in contact with a Union rep on a strike or is this just all whining to each other and letting T push you around? Put on your big girl pa----s and let's see some action instead of just talk!!!! STRIKE!!
Has any member of the U management team asked the President they helped elect why he’s doing something to cause job loss & strife/division amongst these union workers that he so dearly supports?
"Strike!!!Cant let em push us around!I understand if you have taken the shot but that was your choice!What about the people who chooses not to? Brotherhood!We should be more United now more than ever!Strike!!!!".
I am management (L2), and this statement should include employees.. strike!
Strike? bahahaha get bent. People would cross that line so fast your head would spin.
Ya'll need to stop being whiny little bi----s and get the shot. Otherwise, get the fu-k out and let the rest of us get back to real work instead of carrying around your lazy self-entitled as--s.
I say all ATT union members or all those covered by a CBA wild cat strike this company on January 31st, 2022. That’ll get T to reconsider in a New York minute! T is just showboating to the Biden administration, of course it is since it’s become so damn woke!
CWA has been gutless and worthless since the day I first was introduced to this union and that still holds today! I’m so glad I declined membership to that extortion outfit! They’re happy to take your union dues, but do nothing to earn them except talk the talk, period! I saved roughly $30k over the years from not joining and to me that’s a win!
The union should have at least negotiated voluntary separation. Sad that we will be fired over our belief not to take an experimental dr-g with no studies of long term side effect.
Lol the stupidity in these comments is riveting. Fox News is a helluva dr-g!
Strike!!!Cant let em push us around!I understand if you have taken the shot but that was your choice!What about the people who chooses not to? Brotherhood!We should be more United now more than ever!Strike!!!!
" Guess we all gotta move to Montana . " Or Florida? Ron Desantis outlawed vaccination passports.
@quh. So what you’re saying is that when it comes down to it, the company can do what the company wants to do(impasse), thus, the u is essentially a suggestion box.
Great job AT&T! Great job CWA!! Common sense prevailing.
No offense to anyone in the union, but for the uneducated they send normal everyday Joe’s to battle att. They never ever stood a chance because they have NO skill on negotiation they aren’t mind set on winning . Guess we all gotta move to Montana .
The way we get OUR way is to move in force. They may can stand to lose a few, but if the majority of us against this stand up together, COMPANY AND US WIDE... thats how you make ripples!
I don’t understand how if the company and union disagree the company gets its way that makes no since!!!
Additionally, the Company's policy will provide a process for employees to request an exemption from the vaccination requirement for both religious and/or medical reasons. However, because AT&T’s last, best, and final offer still included mandatory vaccinations as a condition of employment, the CWA Bargaining Committee rejected their proposal. As a result, the parties have now reached a second impasse.
Under federal labor law, a Union and a company are required to bargain until they reach agreement or until they reach impasse. If an impasse is reached, a Company is, by law, entitled to implement its final proposal as long as it is bargained with the Union. To summarize these negotiations, because CWA would not agree to the Company’s insistence on a COVID-19 vaccine mandate, the parties inevitably reached an impasse and the company intends to invoke their legal right under federal labor law, to implement their COVID-19 Vaccination Policy.
"CWA’s National Bargaining Committee entered into negotiations with AT&T. Throughout the course of these discussions, the Union held firmly to our position against vaccinations being a mandatory requirement as a condition of employment. AT&T was just as adamant that the Company would not agree to any proposal that did not include a mandate. As a result, the parties were unable to come to terms on an agreement and reached an impasse in “Decisional Bargaining.”
CWA then utilized the full extent of authority under federal labor law governing the bargaining process and impasse, by immediately demanding that the Company enter into “Effects Bargaining” with the Union. Our National Bargaining Committee commenced negotiations with the Company over the terms of their proposed policy, its implementation, and its effects in the workplace. During the course of these negotiations both parties have affirmed their unwillingness to move off their respective positions relative to the issue of mandatory vaccinations as a condition of employment.
As it stands today, the Company has presented the Union a “last, best, and final offer,” which incorporated certain modifications to their proposed policy, based on CWA’s bargaining demands. The deadline for the Company's vaccination requirement has now been pushed back from January 1, 2022, to February 1, 2022. The Company will provide employees who are not vaccinated by February 1, 2022, with a 60-day unpaid reconsideration period. Any employee who is discharged by the Company for violating their policy will be marked as **rehireable. **"
just heads up, the union DID fight. I am researching it now...
"CWA/AT&T - Wireline COVID Vaccination Bargaining Update #3
September 14, 2021
Today, the CWA bargaining committee met with AT&T and rejected the company's proposed mandatory vaccination policy for Union-represented employees. Our committee further emphasized that CWA supports voluntary vaccination programs and opposes mandatory vaccination as a condition of employment. Our committee then introduced a counter proposal which provides incentives to employees who volunteer to be vaccinated, as well as those who have already been vaccinated. The Union's counter proposal also includes a testing option for employees who choose not to be vaccinated.
After going through the counter proposal and answering the company's questions, the company stated they would give it further review and consideration. The parties agreed to reconvene negotiations tomorrow morning. Additional updates will be distributed as they become available.
CWA Bargaining Committee"
The conference call I was on said they would be given up to 60 days unpaid leave and if still not vaccinated then terminated with cause and marked not rehirable.
It is going to be required by OSHA per Biden so the only way to fight it is to sue OSHA once it publishes the rule. All companies will be required to mandate vaccines if they have over 100 employees.
Violating the COBC is termination with cause. A pretty harsh step. However, they can be marked as re-hire eligible
What do you propose - general strike?
"As it stands today, the Company has presented the Union a “last, best, and final offer”, which incorporated certain modifications to their proposed policy, based on CWA’s bargaining demands. The deadline for the Company's vaccination requirement has now been pushed back from January 1, 2022, to February 1, 2022. The Company will provide employees who are not vaccinated by February 1, 2022, with a 60-day unpaid reconsideration period. Any employee who is discharged by the Company for violating their policy will be marked as rehireable. Additionally, the Company's policy will provide a process for employees to request an exemption from the vaccination requirement for both religious and/or medical reasons. However, because AT&T’s last, best, and final offer still included mandatory vaccinations as a condition of employment, the CWA Bargaining Committee rejected their proposal. As a result, the parties have now reached a second impasse. Under federal labor law, a Union and a company are required to bargain until they reach agreement or until they reach an impasse. If an impasse is reached, a Company is, by law, entitled to implement its final proposal as long as it is bargained with the Union."
This thing is pushed off to February when it could have been October. By Feb, a new variant of the virus could make the vaccines obsolete or some kind of lawsuit could ensue. That vaccine wasn't "approved" for medical or scientific reasons - it was "approved" for legal reasons, to weaken lawsuits.
Without the Union, people would have been required to get the vaccine in October.
This is government mandated with heavy fines. AT&T and the union have no choice. Your choices are simple: quit working/get fired, get an exception or get vaccinated. Joe Bidumb and his fascist administration strikes again!
ROFL sure kid, Fu-k around and find out.
soo, at this point, I feel we BY PASS THE UNION TOO. there is STILL STRENGTH IN our numbers and this is OUR BODIES WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HERE! Not a contract for higher pay... I say we STAND UP for ourselves!
The people in the union hall are generally the lazy workers that are only there to get of doing their real job. Of course they’re not going to be able to get anything done.
This kind of stuff is why I've never paid a penny in union dues in 13 years I've worked here.
True unions are dead. The CWA is just a worthless coward of an organization.