Avaya Bargaining Report #7

Greetings:

Today the company presented three proposals across the table.

The first proposal would change the Sickness and Accidental

Disability Plan to add an offset from Primary and Family

Disability Social Security benefits, Workers Compensation

benefits and any State or Federal disability benefits except

veteran's benefits. These offsets would apply to any company

disability payments whether half pay or full pay. The Union

rejected the proposal.

The second proposal would add offsets to Long Term Disability

payments for any family disability Social Security benefits

received.

The third company proposal would reduce the number of CWA and

IBEW Employee Resource Coordinators (ERC) and Managed Care

Coordinators from the current five (5) to one from each Union

for a total of two (2) to support both programs and all

employees. In addition it would eliminate the ERC funding

language. The salary and expenses would be paid out of Corporate

funds.

After much heated discussion across the table related to the

company's continued retrogressive demands we recessed for the

day. The next formal meeting is scheduled for tomorrow at

11:00AM. The company said all they will have at that time will

be a proposal on Vacations.

This afternoon the Sub-Committees met to discuss issues around

the RFE's or FAST Engineers. Mike Tetley from the Services

organization attended to answer questions from the Union. We are

now working on a proposal to deal with the issue as well as

other related areas.

Only 18 more days until contract expiration! Avaya needs to be

sent a message!

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In Unity,

CWA-Avaya Bargaining Team
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