CWA/Avaya Bargaining Report #13

Greetings:

We met with the company this morning and received responses to

more data requests. The company passed a counter proposal on the

Academic Awards and the Sickness Accident Disability Plan which

contained only minor changes to their original ones.


The Unions passed a proposal on Successorship. We also passed

three more data requests to the company. The session ended and

we agreed to meet in sub-committee in the afternoon.


We met in sub-committee at 2pm to receive the company's counter

to our job security and certification response to them. After

much discussion we recessed to give both parties time to work on

the issue separately. We will continue to work on proposals and

issues over the weekend.


We received an overwhelming strike authorization vote so maybe

the company will take our resolve seriously in the coming days.

Keep up the mobilization! Next week the contract should be your

main concern. No one should be working overtime voluntarily!


Eight more days!!!!


Mobilize----Mobilize---Mobilize---Mobilize---Mobilize---Mobilize---Mobilize


In Unity,


CWA-Avaya Bargaining Team
For more information send email to: cwa9408@pacbell.net