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Verizon Bargaining 2011: Report # 15

02 Aug, 2011

At the bargaining table today, the company attempted to explain the details of their sales compensation plan. The Union committee asked questions for many hours and we still didn’t finish with our questions. The company attempted to put lipstick on this pig they call the “Sales Compensation Plan” and convince us it isn’t a “commission” sales plan. However, our members know you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.

With only five days until contract expiration, the company is still not willing to address the main issue the union has brought to these contract negotiations, Jobs.

The only way we are going to reach a fair agreement is if our members force them into it. Every person, every day needs to turn up the heat in the workplace. Every person needs to send the message we are not going to stand for all of the givebacks and retrogressions they have in their proposed package.

It’s up to you sisters and brothers. We won’t see them move anything at this table until they feel they pressure from the managers and supervisors in the workplace that we will not accept what they have to offer.

Verizon seems hell-bent on destroying the middle class jobs CWA and IBEW have fought so hard to create over the last 50 years of collective bargaining.

It is time that Verizon invests in America and brings Good Jobs back into the bargaining unit. Corporations like Verizon should not be destroying middle class jobs. They should be helping to rebuild the American economy and sharing their success with the workforce that made it possible.