Legislative

Attention All Active and Retired Members of 4603

If you haven’t heard AT&T is at it again - they recently announced their intention to surplus 118 more  members of our Local.  This is on top of work completing 50 RLT’s (working on the U-Verse build) on August 29^th, and 9 more by the end of the month.

We must get our Legislators involved in the fight to save these jobs and to hold AT&T accountable for the commitments it made to the Legislators when they were lobbying for passage of the Statewide Video Franchising Act last fall.

There are 2 ways in which to do this.  Either use regular mail to send a copy of the letter to your Assemblyperson and Senator along with Governor Jim Doyle, or scroll down this page to find copies of the letters to cut and paste into e-mail’s to your representatives.

If you do not know who your representatives are simply go to http://waml.legis.state.wi.us/ and enter your information or call the Legislative Hotline at 1-800-362-9472.

Participation by ALL members is crucial.  AT&T is shirking it’s responsibilities to its employees and it’s customers in the State of Wisconsin by continually reducing the workforce and shifting jobs to areas outside of Wisconsin . Remember an injury to one is an injury to ALL so let’s show our solidarity. Please take the time today to make your voice heard

CWA Local 4603 Mobilization Committee, Rich Pearson, Chair

CWA Local 4603 Legislative Committee, Joy Roberts, Chair

Letter to your State Legislators: 

Dear Senator/Representative ( insert name of your Senator and Representative):

As an employee of AT&T and a member of the Communications Workers of America, Local 4603, in Milwaukee , I am writing to ask for your assistance in holding AT&T accountable to the employees and customers in Wisconsin .  Last year, when the Statewide Video Franchising bill was pending in the Legislature we heard a lot of promises from AT&T about infrastructure build and increased employment.

The truth of the matter is now that the bill has been signed into law the infrastructure development has been phased back dramatically.  The promised employment to help build the infrastructure has come in the form of Term Employees, not regular full time employees.  AT&T has already informed the Union of its intention to “work complete” (which means lay-off or terminate) all of these Term Employees by the end of 2008.  They have already done so to 59 of these Employees in Milwaukee alone.

All of the jobs generated by the UVerse product have been Regular Limited Term jobs with no guarantees that they will continue past April 4^th, 2009 when the current contract with the Communications Workers of America expires.

Now, to add insult to injury, AT&T has announced the intention to lay off another 118 workers covered under the traditional contract.  In the Greater Milwaukee area alone this is about 5% of the membership of the Communications Workers of America, Local 4603.  Add in the Term Employees that have been let go or will be let go by the end of the year and the percentage jumps to almost 10%. 

This has been a continuing trend.  Since the late 1990’s Milwaukee has suffered through two major business office and several smaller office closings, resulting in a loss of over 1,000 jobs.   

The truth of the matter is that since Governor Doyle signed the Bill into law AT&T has reduced infrastructure investment, reduced employment levels and refused to guarantee that any of the other jobs created after the passage of the bill will remain in Wisconsin after April 4^th, 2009 .

I respectfully request that you call Scott VanderSanden (president of AT&T Wisconsin) at 414-270-5900 and Randall Stephenson (CEO of AT&T) at 210-351-5401 and demand that they live up to the promises they made while lobbying for the passage of the Statewide Video Franchising Act.

Sincerely,       

Letter to the Governor

Dear Governor Doyle:

As an employee of AT&T and a member of the Communications Workers of America, Local 4603, in Milwaukee , I am writing to ask for your assistance in holding AT&T accountable to the employees and customers in Wisconsin .  Last year, when the Statewide Video Franchising bill was pending in the Legislature we heard a lot of promises from AT&T about infrastructure build and increased employment.

The truth of the matter is now that the bill has been signed into law the infrastructure development has been phased back dramatically.  The promised employment to help build the infrastructure has come in the form of Term Employees, not regular full time employees.  AT&T has already informed the Union of its intention to “work complete” (which means lay-off or terminate) all of these Term Employees by the end of 2008.  They have already done so to 59 of these Employees in Milwaukee alone.

All of the jobs generated by the UVerse product have been Regular Limited Term jobs with no guarantees that they will continue past April 4^th, 2009 when the current contract with the Communications Workers of America expires.

Now, to add insult to injury, AT&T has announced the intention to lay off another 118 workers covered under the traditional contract.  In the Greater Milwaukee area alone this is about 5% of the membership of the Communications Workers of America, Local 4603.  Add in the Term Employees that have been let go or will be let go by the end of the year and the percentage jumps to almost 10%. 

This has been a continuing trend.  Since the late 1990’s Milwaukee has suffered through two major business office and several smaller office closings, resulting in a loss of over 1,000 jobs.   

The truth of the matter is that since Governor Doyle signed the Bill into law AT&T has reduced infrastructure investment, reduced employment levels and refused to guarantee that any of the other jobs created after the passage of the bill will remain in Wisconsin after April 4^th, 2009 .

I respectfully request that you call Scott VanderSanden (president of AT&T Wisconsin) at 414-270-5900 and Randall Stephenson (CEO of AT&T) at 210-351-5401 and demand that they live up to the promises they made while lobbying for the passage of the Statewide Video Franchising Act.

Sincerely,       

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