January Membership Meeting
Date: Jan 15, 2019
Time: 5PM-7PM
Location: MARSHALL COMMUNITY CENTER: 4133-A Rectortown Road Marshall, VA 20115
The stewards meeting will take place from 5PM-6PM and the membership meeting will take place from 6PM until we're done
My Sister’s Place is a homeless shelter/refuge for domestically abused families.
In the season of giving, please remember those who are less fortunate. We will accepting new coats or donations for My Sister’s Place by December 26th.
Please contact the hall or make drop offs at Gallows Road Garage or Ashburn NOC.
There is a new FrontierRising website that is now up and running. It also includes some new programs that are now available to Frontier associates. Please see attached flyer for additional information. If you are able, feel free to print out a copy to hang on your Union board.
The Foundation’s Board of Directors has approved the awarding of sixteen (16) partial college scholarships of $4,000 each for two years. Eligible for the scholarships are CWA members, their spouses, children, and grandchildren, including the dependents of retired, laid-off, or deceased members.
The November Membership Meeting has been moved ahead one week due to the Thanksgiving Holiday and will be held Nov 13 at 5PM for the Stewards Meeting and 5:30 for the membership at the following address:
Marshall Community Center
4133A Rectortown Rd
Marshall, VA 20115
Hope to see you there.
There are still members in our Local that still have money left in their HRA account. Those individuals should have received the following email on 11/1/2018, along with these attachments. You are not required to do anything, this is just a heads up.
On January 15, 2015, Frontier funded $850 into a Health Reimbursement Account for current employees at that time.
Attached is an informational flyer regarding Frontiers Wellness Credit. The information from Frontier is also wtitten out in the text below...
MEDICAL, WELLNESS CREDIT 10/11/2018
Are you eligible for the 2019 Wellness Credit.
CWA Local 2222 will be holding training for new stewards mid-October. Any current member instrested in becoming a Steward, please contact Stacie Adams at (703) 256-2200.
We are collecting items for military care packages to send overseas. We will be collecting items until Monday October 15, 2018. Any cash donation can be made out to CWA Local 2222 and will be put towards items listed below. Since we are currently without a hall, please call 703-256-2200 to schedule a pickup of the items. Please contact Jeff Schmidt at 405-919-6666 if there are questions.
Reminder: Special Meeting
The Local will hold a special membership meeting at the Kings Park Library (9000 Burke Lake Rd, Burke, VA) on September 12, 2018 at 5:30pm, we will be discussing the process of the new location for the Local. Read More...
My Sister's Place donations
My Sister’s Place is a homeless shelter/refuge for domestically abused families.
In the season of giving, please remember those who are less fortunate. We will accepting new coats or donations for My Sister’s Place by December 26th.
Please contact the hall or make drop offs at Gallows Road Garage or Ashburn NOC. Read More...
CWA Joe Beirne Foundation's 2019-2020 Scholarship
The Foundation’s Board of Directors has approved the awarding of sixteen (16) partial college scholarships of $4,000 each for two years. Eligible for the scholarships are CWA members, their spouses, children, and grandchildren, including the dependents of retired, laid-off, or deceased members. Read More... Download: Beirne_poster_2019-20.pdf
CWA Newsfeed
Verizon Leaves Communities Behind by Closing Wireless Stores in West Virginia and Kentucky
Tuesday, June 5, 2018
Last week, Verizon Wireless closed four retail stores in West Virginia and one in Kentucky, turning the operation of the stores over to a third-party contractor. Workers have reported losing their jobs or taking steep pay cuts as a result of the change. Following the conversion, there remain only two retail locations operated by Verizon in West Virginia, with the rest controlled by contractors.
"By closing these stores, Verizon is leaving its customers and employees in these communities behind," said Ed Mooney, Vice President of CWA District 2-13. "Congress handed Verizon an additional $3.5 billion when it passed the corporate tax cut bill last year. Instead of using that money to boost wages, create jobs and providing better customer service, Verizon Wireless is closing stores and turning them over to low-wage contractors."
Verizon Wireless has been shedding jobs in recent years. These store closures are part of a wave of retail closures across the country, and also follow the closure of 19 call centers since 2012 affecting roughly 11,000 workers. Verizon Wireless has also announced closure of 6 call centers over the next year, and is converting the work to home-based, likely leaving only half as many jobs as before.
Locations that have been converted from Verizon-owned stores to authorized retail stores operated by Cellular Sales are located in Charleston, W.Va., Huntington, W.Va, Logan, W.Va., Teays Valley, W.Va. and Ashland, Ky.
FrontierRising spotlight 12-2018.pdf
