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Important Notice for SBC employees

If you were a Fac Administrator, OPT, Splicing Tech, or Engineering Administrator, with Return Rights expiring between December 20, 2004 and June 29, 2005

You should have received the following letter - if this applies to you and you did not receive the letter, call the number on the letter and inform the Local through your local steward or call the Local Office.

February 22, 2005

The Company plans to open Regular Full-Time jobs in the Network Services organization for project Light Speed.  Per a “Memorandum of Agreement – Extension of Return Rights”,  effective February 1, 2005, the Companies and the Communications Workers of America (Union) agreed to extend Return Rights as described in the current Contract in Article 2, Section 2.06B8. 

Those employees whose Return Rights were slated to expire between December 20, 2004 and June 29, 2005 who held the titles of Engineering Administrator, FACS Administrator, Outside Plant Technician or Splicing Technician when granted Return Rights, will have their Return Rights extended through June 30, 2005.

You have been identified as an employee who meets the above listed criteria.  You will be able to use your Return Right bids to bid on requisitions in AUTS effective March 7^th 2005.

Please review your current resume in AUTS to determine if it  accurately reflects your skills.   Please update any skill codes you possess  that are not currently listed on your resume. You may wish to review the Job Brief for your affected titles. The Job Briefs and AUTS Resume work sheets needed to update your resume, are available on http://pecos.sbc.com/autsonline/job website.  In order to assist the staffing organization in making placements, please fax your AUTS Resume updates to the ESC. Please allow 48 hours for the ESC to update your resume.

Your supervisor or the ESC is available to assist you with your AUTS resume updates.  Once you have faxed your resume to the ESC, should you have questions regarding the updating of your AUTS resume, please call the ESC on HROneStop (1-888-722-1787). You will be connected to SBC HR Speak.  When prompted, say “AUTS” and you will be connected. 

Thank you

Arna Jennings

Staffing Manager

714-680-8008

Pre-Strike vs. Post Strike Comparison

Dear CWA Local 9400 Member,

Many rumors are being circulated and many questions are being asked.  Our recent victory against SBC should not be taken lightly nor discounted by managers, members or anyone else.  We won a big victory.  Prior to ratification, you should be made aware of the changes not only in our contract, but the changes made by your bargaining committee which were made possible by our four-day strike.

Company Ultimatum  - PRE-STRIKE

Wages:

Taken from Ed’s letter to our members on May 19, 2004:

Wages: 1^st yr. 4% lump sum ONLY, $50K per year = $2000.

2^nd yr:.2.5%; 3^rd yr.: 2.5%; 4^th yr.: 2.25%;   5^th yr.: 2.25%

Tentative Agreement, May 24^{th   -} POST STRIKE

Wages:

1^st yr. 1% lump sum, = $500 plus 2% of 50K per yr. = $1000 X 5 yr. = $5000 plus $500 + $5500

2^nd yr.: 2.5%    3^rd yr.: 2.5% plus $250 lump sum   4^th yr.: 2.5% plus $375 lump sum and COLA; 5^th yr.: 2.5% PLUS $375. Lump sum and Cola, $1000 + $5500 = $6500 wages.

Net difference of $4,500 without compounding.  Comparison is based on $50,000 annual salary.

A Cost of Living (COLA) adjustment will be made to base wage rates effective April or 2007 and April 2008.

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Company Ultimatum – PRE-STRIKE

Pensions:

Eliminate lump sum payments of pension. 

Tentative Agreement, May 24^th  - POST STRIKE 

Pensions:

Lump sum distributions of monthly pension benefits are continued.  The pre-retirement survivor benefit is continued.

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Company Ultimatum – PRE-STRIKE:

Health Care:

No premiums in the first year.  Premiums increased to Medical Cost Index each year.

This has ranged from 10 to 15% per year.

Office visits:

As of Jan. 1, 2005 = $15 office visit, $50 emergency visit.

As of Jan. 1, 2007 = $25 office visit, $75 emergency visit.

As of Jan. 1, 2008 = $30 office visit, $75 emergency visit.

Prescription Drugs:

Health Care for Retirees:

Increase of Co-pays with no offsets.  Employees retiring after Jan 1, 2005 would have cost shifting of premiums, prescriptions and co-pay. 

Tentative Agreement, May 24^TH – POST STRIKE

Health care;

No Premiums, Life of the contract

Office visits:

As of Jan. 1, 2005 = $15 office visit, $50 emergency visit.

As of Jan. 1, 2007  =$20 office visit, $75 emergency visit.  Remains the same till end of contract.

Prescriptions Drugs:

Health Care for Retirees: 

No Premiums.

Lump sum 12/31/04 - $1250 to off-set increase in Co-pays.

Lump sum 12/31/06 - $1250 to off-set increase in Co-pays

Retirees after the effective date of the contract (4-4-04) will retire with medical benefits the same as regular full-time employees for the life of the contract.

Cap raised to $9,000 per retiree with commitment that company to continue to pay for the life of the contract even if cap exceeded.

Dental Plan improvements;

$20 visit co-pay, benefits percentage raised 5%.

Company Ultimatum – PRE-STRIKE

Employment Security;

No lay-off in 3 years.  If there is a job offered in the State (including non-commutable downgrades) and the employee refuses, they are to be considered self-terminated.

Union members access to certain jobs would be available “as long as the labor agreements are competitive with the Contractors” (sweat shop and foreign workers).

No improvement in SBCIS contract.

After Tentative Agreement, May 24^TH  - POST STRIKE

Employment Security:

Guarantee of no layoffs for 5 years for employees on the payroll at date of ratification. Employees hired on or after date of ratification will have all the protections of Article 2 but if after assignment phase there are no jobs available they may be subject to layoff.

Recall of 600 laid off members from Districts 4 and 6.

Tier 2 Customer Contact/Tech support CWA represented employees will do this work.

Commitment to put additional funds toward improving SBCIS contract.

Video – CWA/SBC to negotiate a contract.  Tier 1 Customer Contact/Tech support work to be brought back in 2007.

FTTP to be done in the “Core”. 

SBC/CWA Presidents’ Council will discuss bringing outbound telemarketing jobs into the bargaining unit.

The Company and the union will negotiate a separate collective bargaining contract for buried service work.

Employees may transfer to any 100% owned subsidiary and carry service credit for benefits (i.e.vacations) at the new company.

Global Services/Datacomm work done today by bargaining unit employees will continue per applicable contract.

Successor Clause: CWA won for the first time a Successorship clause that requires SBC, if it chooses to sell any of its represented properties, to make as a condition of the sale the assumption of the union contract and the employees.  The buyer would have to negotiate the new contract of equal value.  The existing contract would remain in effect pending these negotiations.  With the uncertainties in the industry, this could provide real employment security.

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Company Ultimatum – PRE-STRIKE

No title upgrades.

After Tentative Agreement, May 24^th  - POST STRIKE

The union presented many titles that deserved upgrades.  Your Bargaining Committee worked long and hard, presenting substantiation and documentation for these changes.  

Titles submitted were: Cable Locator, Collection Representative, Customer Rep (3^rd Party Billing), Engineering Administrator (Posting), Engineering Cost Associate, ENOC Tech, Facility Technician, HR Operations Associates, Maintenance Administrator, Operations Administrator, Operator, RCMA, Service Representative (CSOC) Service Technician, Splicing Technician (Antenna Crew), Staff Associates (Sac SOC), Customer Rep 3^rd  party billing to 3^rd Party Billing Rep (new title).

After many hours of negotiations, only two titles were upgraded:” Staff Associate (Sacramento SOC) and  SplicingTechnician in the statewide Antenna Crew to Antenna Technicians to wage schedule 30.

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Company Ultimatum – PRE-STRIKE

The Company attempted to remove, reduce and/or nullify the following:

After Tentative Agreement, May 24^TH  - POST STRIKE

Efforts by your Bargaining Committee resulted in the following:

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In addition to the items above, your Union made changes for District Nine Local Critical items:

Article 2

Article 4 – Occupational Job Evaluation.  Reclassifications resulting in upgrades will not result in a decrease of pay and employees will be allowed full wage experience credit in progression or at maximum on the old wage schedule.

Article 5 - Per Diem increased to $35.00.

Article 6 – Expanded definition of immediate family.

Article 8 – Include all differentials in the layoff allowance formulas.

This has been a long and tedious struggle.  The officers of your Local wish to thank you, the members, for your loyal support. Your Mobilization efforts and the four-day strike in support of our Bargaining Committee has made this success possible.  We especially want to thank the Stewards of Local 9400.  Without their dedication and work, none of this would have happened.

THANK YOU 

Your Local President Micheal Hartigan and the Officers of Local 9400

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