CWA Local 3120

08/12/2016

It’s official — Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Tim Canova will debate for a full hour this Sunday morning on “Facing South Florida with Jim DeFede” from 8 to 9 a.m. on CBS4 Miami. It will also be streamed live on CBSMiami.com and facebook.com/CBSMiami.

“After four months of dodging debates and running scared, Wasserman Schultz has finally agreed to debates,” Canova said in a statement. “We we were hoping for at least three, two-hour debates, but for the time being, this will have to suffice.”

Canova also said in his statement he believed he and Wasserman Schultz will engage in a second, hour-long debate on Michael Putney’s “This Week in South Florida,” which airs on WPLFG Channel 10.

However, the Wassermann Schultz campaign denied that would happen. “There is no agreement to a second debate,” Ryan Banfill, a spokesman for the Wasserman Schultz campaign, said in an email Thursday night.

“Again, I look forward to the opportunity to discuss the issues important to the people of Florida’s 23rd Congressional District,” Wasserman Schultz said in a statement issued earlier Thursday afternoon, before Canova had formally responded. “I will be there on Sunday. I welcome my opponent’s participation if he decides he wants a real discussion of the issues that matter to our community.’

The announcement finally clears the air, after Canova had angrily rejected what he said was Wasserman Schultz’ original plan for a debate, that would only last for 15 minutes on DeFede’s Sunday morning show.

DeFede tweeted earlier that the original debate would be for 30 minutes, and NOT a 15-minute segment.

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08/03/2016

Election Day is coming up real soon! Want to make sure you're registered to vote? Check out this website for information about voting and also your Polling Place.

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08/03/2016

Attention Union Members of Local 3120:

Today is our monthly union membership meeting. We are hoping you could attend and show your support as we discussion important union topics. We hope to see you there!

Location:
7400 Pines Blvd, Pembroke Pines, Fl, 33023
Time:
7:30pm

08/03/2016

Direct TV Workers Say 'CWA YES'

“We need CWA to represent us because we are playing with a new set of rules now. We need to make sure that we have a voice and that those rules are upheld for everyone. CWA is our voice and AT&T’s conscience.”

Malena Ponder, Tulsa customer care center and new CWA member.

Nearly 10,000 DirecTV technicians, customer service representatives and warehouse and administrative workers now have CWA representation, and more are joining every day. It’s more proof that when workers can make a free and fair choice about union representation – without management harassment, interference or worse – they say, “CWA YES.”

DirecTV is owned by AT&T. The management neutrality and card check provisions that CWA bargained with AT&T are the reasons that workers can make a fair choice about union representation.

Call center workers in Huntsville, Ala., got the ball rolling. CWA Local 3905 President David Betz, working with a determined inside committee, the local’s members and leadership, and District 3, said a “fast and furious” organizing drive lasted just eight days. “The group worked from 6 a.m. to midnight each day to make sure every employee had the opportunity to discuss joining CWA. There was a tremendous response from DirecTV workers, who take calls from customers around the country,” he said. Concerns included favoritism in the workplace and miscommunication about the company’s policies.

Across the country, CWA organizers and locals are working with DirecTV workers who want a CWA voice. Here are some of the recent highlights:
•More than 2,000 technicians, warehouse and administrative workers in California and Nevada joined CWA, with 15 CWA locals working together in 26 locations.

•In Denton and Hanover, Md., 100 technicians, warehouse and administrative workers won representation. CWA Locals 2106 and 2100 talked and met with workers.

•In La Vergne and Knoxville, Tenn., 201 DirecTV technicians joined CWA. Locals 3808 and 3802 worked to get them organized, with 80 percent of them signing CWA membership cards at the same time.

•The 985 workers at the Tulsa, Okla., DirecTV customer care center now have representation with help from CWA Local 6012.

•In District 6, another 923 workers – technicians, installers, warehouse and administrative employees in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas – gained a CWA voice through a solidarity campaign with help from 16 CWA locals.

•In Alabama, another 240 CWA DirecTV technicians, warehouse and administrative workers joined CWA, and signed up mainly on the night shift, working with Locals 3901, 3902, 3903, 3905, 3908 and 3911.

•A unit of 110 DirecTV technicians in Oregon gained CWA representation, with support from Local 7906 and Local 9421 organizers and District 9.

08/03/2016

Before the start of the Democratic Convention on Monday, hundreds of activists and allies who have fought against the Trans-Pacific Partnership rallied to make it clear that there can be no TPP now and no TPP during a lame duck session of Congress.

CWA President Chris Shelton told the crowd, "Our mission now is to get the officials of the Democratic Party to take their implicit rejection of the TPP and make it an explicit rejection. I urge all of you to take action. Hold your members of Congress accountable." He brought the crowd to its feet, asking, "Are you ready to stand up and fight back?"

Joining Shelton was Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.); Gustavo Torres, executive director of Casa in Action; Lori Wallach, director of Global Trade Watch; former CWA President Larry Cohen, and other speakers pushing delegates to raise the issue at their state meetings and put the 41 senators and representatives who voted for Fast Track on notice: "The TPP has got to go!"

At the opening night of the convention, delegates waved signs and chanted "No TPP, No TPP, No TPP." About 38 CWAers were delegates to the DNC.

02/04/2016

Great Memebership meeting tonight! Thank you all who participants and showing their support to our Local. Our next memebership meeting on Wednesday March 2, 2016
Time: 7:30pm
Location: 7400 Pines Blvd

02/04/2016

"We need a fair contract for all the 39,000 workers here at Verizon," he told workers outside a store in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. "You know, ladies and gentlemen, in the old days, we wanted corporate America to make profits. You know why? In the '50s, '60s and '70s they knew that when they made profit, it was because of their workers. And they shared those profits with their workers. This day we're in a new era. It all goes to salaries to the people at the highest end."
Schumer's mother-in-law was a longtime CWA member. That good, union job allowed the family to build a better life and send his wife to college. That's why today Schumer is fighting for strong "card check" and a National Labor Relations Board with real teeth.
Schumer knocked the executives who "squeeze the working people who made the company what it is."
"That has to end," he said. "We really don't care if their stock goes up if our wages and benefits go down."
To change America, Schumer stressed, we need a strong union movement to bring collective bargaining to all workers. The senator ended his speech by calling on the company to rehire Bianca Cunningham, a union activist who was illegally fired after she helped organize 65 Verizon Wireless workers in Brooklyn.
"We're with you all the way," Schumer told Cunningham. "You have courage and strength and we're behind you."

02/04/2016

Feb 3, 2016

Washington, DC – Democratic backers of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal like to claim that the TPP is “the most progressive trade agreement in history.”

If that’s the case, then why must the White House rely on “Republican friendly organizations” and some of the biggest opponents of progressive policies to get the deal through Congress?

“The White House will be relying on ‘Republican friendly organizations’ to make the case for passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership in Congress, the administration's chief spokesman said today.

‘The good news is that it's not just going to be a Democratic president trying to appeal to Republicans in Congress to support this agreement,’ White House spokesman Josh Earnest said at a press briefing.

He named the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, American Farm Bureau Federation and National Association of Manufacturers among the groups that will be looked upon ‘to make a strong case to the Republicans.

Many of those groups have expressed support for the deal but conditioned their endorsement on how the administration addresses certain areas of the agreement they view as problematic, such as its provisions on pharmaceuticals, financial services and to***co.

According to Shane Larson, Legislative Director at the Communications Workers of America (CWA), “It’s ironic that even the Administration now admits that passage of TPP relies on the support and work of some of the most vehement opponents of real progressive policies. The lack of support from Democrats and the progressive movement clearly demonstrates the emptiness of claims that the TPP is a ‘progressive’ trade agreement. With support for the TPP deteriorating since its public release from even proponents of the Fast-Track TPA, it seems that that USTR Michael Froman will look for support wherever he can find it. In this case, that means support from the organizations most committed to attacking progressive policies and bankrolling right-wing politicians. The fact is that the TPP would set back rather than advance core progressive issues and values.”

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What's your input on the TPP?

02/04/2016

Fred Bosch (An AT&T OPT) was a good man, husband and father of two children (13 and 8 years old). Please help our Brother's family in their time of need.This was a tragedy for which no one could plan. Whatever you could do to donate to his family will be very grateful.

https://www.gofundme.com/6ajdqe58

12/02/2015

Good morning Union Brothers and Sisters,

Today is our Monthly Membership meeting. Tonight will be held at Ricky's Bar and Grill located at 8389 Pines Blvd Pembroke Pines, FL 33024. Union Members of Local 3120 only. Time: 7:30pm. Food will be provided. Hope to see you there!

10/20/2015

http://files.cwa-union.org/district3/D3ATTSoutheastSummary2015TentativeAgreement.PDF