President’s Report – June 2018

CWA LOCAL 1170

President’s Report

June 20, 2018

Frontier Updates:

Membership Counts by Title as of 05/31/18

Resignation

Retirement

Voluntary Severance

Terminations

LTD Absences

Frontier 2nd Step Grievance Meetings:

April 24^th, 2018 Grievance Committee in attendance: John Pusloskie, Andy Cimino, Rich Winter, D. Ostrander, D. Holloway, L. Robertson, R. Roll

Grievance 2-2589-18 – The Union grieved the written warning issued to James Wojtarowicz.  The Company position was they weren’t moving off the warning.  They had agreed not to address other issues if there were no future instances and they can’t overlook this one.  June 13^th, 2018 the Company denied the grievance.

Grievance 2-2591-18 – The Union grieved that Connecticut supervisors were performing bargaining unit work of Desk Techs.  Marion Wyand stated that they’ve addressed the issue with Management and management will cease and desist from performing bargaining unit work.  June 13^th, 2018 the Company responded that they agree the closing of tickets it CPE Desk tech work and dispatch would no longer close them out.

Grievance 3-4162-18 – Beginning on March 5^th management and contractors were taking status calls and entering new tickets, this is bargaining unit work.  Management agreed that they had changed the titles of some employees to perform hourly work and they have contractors who enter tickets for small business.  The Union has requested a cease and desist and everyone be offered an overtime make up.  June 13, 2018 the Company denied the Union adjustment to the grievance, stated there was no violation of the contract, therefore denying the grievance.

May 22^nd, 2018 Grievance committee in attendance: John Pusloskie, Andy Cimino, Rich Winter, Demiah Smith, Sue Phillips, Bruce Cotton, Mike Sutphen, Carl Ellis.

Grievance 5-327-18 and 5-328-18 – On February 20^th and 27^th respectively the Company violated the lead man language and practice of the contract as the job was reschedule and the lowlist should’ve been followed.  June 13^th, 2018 the Company denied the grievance.

Grievance 7-1481-18 – Beginning on July 6, 2017 the Company has failed to have paychecks delivered on time to certain locations.  June 13^th, 2018.  The Company agreed that payroll will get checks in mailbox at earlier pick up to help eliminate the delay.

Grievance 7-1482-18 – Unjust termination of Marnye Knight.  June 13, 2018 the Company denied the grievance due to an extended unapproved absence and failure to communicate with management on the matter.

Closed Out:

Arbitration Update Frontier:

• Transfer of bargaining unit work due to M6 Conversion.

The arbitrator has offered September 21st to hear the case.

• The National Labor Relations board has issued a complaint in regards to the Unfair Labor charge failure to provide information M6. The Company provided the final information as of March 21^st.  The charge has been settled and the Union is moving forward with the arbitration
• Grievance 7-1476-17 Unjust termination James Everts request arbitration 2/2/18.
  • The arbitration has been approved by our CWA Staff Rep and the CWA District 1 office. The case is moving forward to arbitration
• Grievance 7-1477-17 Unjust termination Peter Loss request arbitration 2/2/18.
  • The arbitration has been approved by our CWA Staff Rep and the CWA District 1 office. The case is moving forward to arbitration
• Grievance 7-1479-18 Unilateral change to Long term disability income capping it at $3,000 per month. The grievance was protected for arbitration on May 15, 2018 and is now in the CWA review process.

Take the Lead Sales Monthly Reports

March 1^st thru March 31^st.  Cathy Roller has moved to the Marketing strategy team and no longer overseas the Take The Lead program.  Anne Tetamore has taken over responsibility, we’ve requested April and May’s information which we haven’t received yet.

Ytd       referrals          sales   Total Revenue            Annualized Revenue

Mar.     167                  85        $92,674.93                  $51,874.93

Mtd      59                    30        $59,988.00                  $25,188.00

Managerial Changes

Julie Murtagh has been announced as the new Sr. VP of Operations for the East Region.

Lyle Fell CNOC manager resigned effective April 30^th.

Chris Levandos Sr. VP operations has resigned effective 5/31/18

Farrah Mollo Lead Corporate attorney has resigned effective 6/6/18

Commercial NOC Center:

Monthly Collaboration Meeting June 12^th 2018. John Pusloskie, Rich Winter, Dan Brown, Demiah Smith, and Diane Ostrander were present for the Union.  For the Company Alex Levy, Nadine Justice, Willie Gladney, George Madison, James Gresham.  The Following items were addressed.

• Movement of TDM T-1 testing from Premier customers back to W. Virginia.
• Raised issue on Clerical work going to desk now going to W. Virginia.
• Rochester CPE Tech issues.
  • Going to support Frontier Anyware product nationwide, what level of support and access to servers will we have? At this point it has been determined that we will have portal level access and if we can’t fix it, it will go to the Voip team.
• Training- We have gaps in training and certain certifications. We also expressed the need to have more technicians trained to have more knowledge of the different platforms.

Frontier Updates:

• The Company has started safety inspections out in the field as well as focusing on referrals and the reasons for them. We urge all members to follow safety policies.
• May 1^st the Company reported 1^st quarter 2018 results, revenues fell by 157 million dollars from the same period in 2017. This was viewed as progress by shareholders.
• May 9^th was the Company’s annual shareholders meeting. A recording of it can be found on the shareholders services website.
• The Company has polled all clerical to be a Communications Coordinator III, engineering to replace the retirement of Mavis Lockett. As of June 20^th, no decision to back fill has been made
• The Union has requested an update on the work associated with the 2017 Engineering clerk MOA. The data conversion of the Pennsylvania records is progress and barely moving.  The Union needs to review further for violations of that agreement.
• Tracy Owen has sent email requesting that Union meet to address Team performance bonus and metrics. The Company is requesting to change two of the metrics.  As of April 18^th, 2018, we haven’t agreed to any changes.

Safety Committee

No report

Affiliate Report:

AT&T Mobility:

A nationwide investigation is going on in regards to charge backs.  No one disciplined yet.

ATT-218-18    Darren Magar was issued an unjust counseling notice.

The Grievance was closed on May 31^st as Darren resigned from the Company.

ATT-219-18    The Company unjustly terminated Patti Ross’s health insurance benefits.

The grievance is still pending as we wait for the Company’s response to Ms. Ross’s   employment status.

ATT-220-18. Brianna Pevc hasn’t been scheduled according to her preferences and seniority.

The Grievance was closed on May 16^th as Brianna was one that asked for day off.

ATT-221-18    Kelli Pilaroscia was unfairly denied Paid Family Leave and unjust disciplined in the attendance program.  A first step meeting was held and AT&T has denied the Grievance.    The Union has requested a second step grievance meeting on the matter.  Kelli was approved for Paid Family leave by Prudential who paid AT&T who has refused to pay Kelli Pilaroscia and pointed her in the attendance program for the days she took off.  The Union is considering a lawsuit if we cannot get the grievance adjusted satisfactorily for violating the Law.

City of Canandaigua PBA:

The Canandaigua PBA filed a demand to bargain with Chief Hedworth on June 14^th over the implementation of body cameras.  The Union has requested the assistance of Cathy Creighton for representation purposes on the matter.  If the City refuses to bargain we intend to file an improper practice charge vs. the City.

Town of Greece:

Gold Badge Club:

Nothing new to report

Greece Part Time Unit:

A fact-finding hearing was scheduled for December and cancelled with the hopes of scheduling a bargaining meeting to reach agreement. The unit President is dealing with the loss of her husband and no further meetings have been scheduled at this time.

Town of Greece Crossing Guards:

Sharon DeLucia termination: Brief has been filed by Union attorney to State supreme court and the Union will await a hearing date for the case.

Bargaining: The parties are at impasse and no further date has been scheduled.

Greece Lighthouse:

The Union has grieved that member Susan Duggan was improperly laid off.  The Town has denied the grievance at second step. The Grievance is still open.

A meet and greet of the full timers and part timers was held on May 10^th at the Ridgemont country club.  The following was addressed.

• The Janus Supreme Court Decision impact on Public Sector employees
• The Locals Dental plan and new network
• Town of Greece contracts
• Good and Welfare

City of Canandaigua DPW:

Nothing new to report

Town of Canandaigua Employees Highway Association:

Nothing new to report

Town of Henrietta:

Grievance H00-550-17 The Union reached a settlement on behalf of the Grievants Barbara Bresnan and Jamie Dey which they signed.  They will receive adjusted out of Title pay, pay differential for the out of title hours and first preference for Out of Title hours to work towards promotion into the mmII title.

The Town is currently in the process of creating a full time position in engineering called Geographic Information Systems Technician.  This will be full time bargaining unit position.

Village of Waterloo PBA:

• A tentative agreement has been reached as of February 20th. The agreement is retroactive back to June 1st 2017 expiring May 31st, 20121. The agreement provides for the following.
• Wages: June 1, 2017 – $.80 per hour, June 1, 2018 – $.70 per hour, June 1, 2019 – $.75 per hour, June 1, 2020 – $.80 per hour.
• Vacation: increase of two days after 20 years.
• Health insurance: Increase employee contributions to the following amounts.
  • 2017 – 15%, 2018 – 17%, 2019 – 19%, 2020 – 20%

Town of Gates:

March 1^st met with the full time Librarians to discuss Union Officers, Stewards, next contract as well as Janus Supreme Court case impacting public sector Unions.

Political Action Committee:

March 13, 2018 was CWA Lobby Day. See Demiah Smith report

June 5, 2018 was CWA Lobby Day.  See Demiah Smith report

Other:

CWA National President Chris Shelton is proposing to dissolve the Printing sector and fold it into the existing units.  The successful impact is bargaining and arbitration would fall under district one vs the current staff of the Printing Sector.  The Printing sector is adamantly opposed to the change and is challenging the Authority of President Shelton to do so.

Bylaw Committee – Next meeting TBD

On May 2^nd training for ten officers from CWA Local 1170 affiliates took place.  CWA Staff Rep Erin Bowie and Attorney Jonathan Johnsen spent the better part of the day teaching the basics.  Union Representatives from the Town of Gates, Henrietta, Greece, and City of Canandaigua participated.