Could not be any more proud of my brothers and sisters in Oakland.

A LITTLE PERSPECTIVE FOR YOU GUYS:

HERE'S AN EXCERPT FROM THE SPEECH DOLAN MADE IMMEDIATELY AFTER BROOKLYN VOTED IN THE UNION IN 2012.

*"I want to turn to another topic -- just briefly -- that you probably know about. Last week there was a vote by some of our employees in Brooklyn to join a union. And I'm disappointed in that vote. The reason that I'm disappointed in that vote is because I think those employees were making a statement about their working environment and their relationship with the company, and they decided that they needed to have somebody speak for them in order to improve that. That's the assumption that I make by the vote that they had. I'm sorry that they feel that way. They may very well be justified. I don't know. But I'm going to find out.

We think that when you have a direct relationship with your company, that that enhances our ability to change the company. You can see that there are a lot of changes that we have to make in order to stay competitive, in order to be successful together as a company. I don't think having a party in between us helps us. I think it hurts us, and that's why I'm disappointed. But we're supposed to do a good job there. Management is supposed to do a good job there. We're supposed to uphold these values, and we're not supposed to put you in a position where you would think that somebody else can better represent you than yourself. So we're going to change that.

We're putting a lot of changes in place now and I'm kind of thinking that if I had done this a year earlier, that maybe that vote would have been different in Brooklyn. But I do want to ask you something today. Give this company a chance. Give this management team a chance to show you that it does care about you as employees and values you as employees. I'm making changes. So if you happen to be in a position where you get approached about signing a card to bring a union vote to another one of our facilities, I'm asking you not to sign it -- yet. I'm not asking you to not sign it forever. I'm asking you not to sign it yet, and give us a chance to change some of the things that I obviously think we need to change, and prove to you that you can have faith in the relationship that you have directly with this company. I'm not asking you to do that forever. Just give me a chance and give this company a chance to prove it to you. I think we will.

And as sort of a stop gap from that, if you have concerns now that you feel you need to voice while we're making this change, remember this: jdolan@cablevision.com. You may write me; email me. That doesn't mean that I'm going to be able to email back everyone that does that but I will make sure that every concern that gets emailed to me gets handled professionally and, of course, without any thought of reprisals."*

JAMES DOLAN (2/01/2012)

Congratulations coming from the Bronx shop!

You guys overcame the lies, deception, manipulation, bribery, and all their other unethical tactics.

It's definitely a proud moment!

You succeeded where Bronx & Piscataway failed. Things are going to get very interesting from this moment on for the simple fact that Altice cannot make any unilateral changes to your shop. Doh!

WHAT TO EXPECT NEXT:

Altice will immediately terminate any managerial employees they believe caused this to happen
Altice will double down on their anti-union agenda to prevent any other shop from following Oakland
Altice will likely press the pause button on ATS for the time being
Altice is now legally obligated to negotiate a fair contract for Oakland.

Job well done......wish you guys all the best!

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