Local 6012 News

Congratulations to our newest Chief Stewart, Chris Richey. Chris was unanimously approved by the Local 6012 Executive Board, and the Membership at last night’s meeting. Chris will be working closely with John Rayner and Sal Carreno to represent members of the Tulsa Metro area. Please give Chris the support and help he needs.

CWA Text Message

Join the CWA text message action network by texting "CWATEXT" to 69866.

Find contact info for your elected officials by texting "CD", your address and zipcode, to 69866.

AT&T will be hiring 40 people

The company said it will begin filling the positions at the Tulsa Call Center located at 15901 E. Skelly Drive, starting in June.

All positions are for service representatives that will handle sales and support for new and existing AT&T Customers.

Wages start at $10.67 to $14.57 per hour. Applicants should visit att.jobs to apply.

AT&T Advertising Solutions (Yellow Pages)

Apr 29, 2012

Please be advised we have scheduled a “Town Hall” call for all AT&T Advertising Solutions (YP) members at 6:30 pm Central Standard Time on Tuesday, May 1st to explain the Supplemental Agreement to the Retirement Incentive Offer Agreement (RIO) that was previously posted on our website.

Members should RSVP for the call in advance by texting SALE to 69866. Once they RSVP, they will be auto-dialed just before the call begins. (Members can choose to listen to the call online at district6-cwa-union.org/townhall, but we would like to get their RSVP so that we know how many people to expect.)

We know this is short notice, so please get the word to your members as quickly and in as many different ways as possible, including texting, e-mailing, facebooking and we are in the process of authoring a flyer which will be posted on our website upon completion.

AT&T Veterans E.R.G

AT&T Veterans E.R.G.

Contact Tracy Phoenix Malloy at 918-698-5223 for more information. AT&T Veterans E.R.G. is open to all AT&T Employees. The group will be having a cookout at the Union Hall on May 19th from 4pm - 8pm.

Executive Paywatch

I wanted to give you a chance to be one of the first people to check out the new AFL-CIO Executive PayWatch website—this year’s version is called CEO Pay and the 99%. It’s your one-stop shop for the most recent information on out-of-control CEO pay and what you can do to stop it.

Go to www.PayWatch.org now to search through our updated database on CEO pay, compare your pay with CEOs in your state and across the country and share the shocking results with your friends and family.

At www.PayWatch.org, we highlight both the unbelievable overall statistics and examples of corporate greed run amok, like Verizon.

From 2007 to 2011, Verizon’s cash holdings and short-term investments grew to $14 billion, a more than 300 percent increase since before the financial crisis at the end of 2007. Meanwhile, Verizon thinned its employee rolls by 17.5 percent.

Go to www.PayWatch.org to check out some of the worst examples of CEO pay gone wild and help spread the word.

Here are some truly shocking facts:

• The average CEO now makes an astonishing 380 times what the average worker makes. That ratio used to be 42 times in 1980.

• The average CEO of an S&P 500 company got a nearly 14 percent increase last year. They now make an average of almost $13 million—while millions of jobless workers spent countless hours searching for work. Many jobs were shipped overseas, and people fortunate enough to keep a job were lucky to get a basic cost-of-living increase.

• S&P 500 companies last year had more than $1 trillion amassed in cash. That’s enough money to create a living-wage job, for a year, for every single American who is unemployed, underemployed or has stopped looking for work.

It’s hard to believe. Click here to see for yourself and share the astonishing facts with your friends and family.

Runaway CEO pay isn’t just bad for our economy, it’s bad for the morale of working families, too. All workers, from the executive suite down to the shop floor, contribute to making a company successful. But these corporations are buying into the myth that the success of a corporation is the result of its CEO alone.

Without the painter, office assistant, welder, electrician and hundreds of millions of workers who work every day to support their families and keep our economy going, our society could not work.

The pros and cons of joining a labor union

Thanks to labor unions, wages have improved, the workweek is shorter and the workplace is safer.

Read more: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/pros-cons-joining-labor-union-070044528.html

AT&T Southwest Contract

The AT&T Southwest Contract expires in less than a year! Are you ready? If you haven't already, start your Strike Fund today! Put back a small amount of money every month. If we don't have a strike, you'll have a vacation fund.

Check out the new CWA Local 6012 Benefits Guide from Union Plus Benefits.  It's located in the Union Benefits Section at the left.