Call for Sales Consultants to show up en masse at union meetings.

We need cities with sales centers to encourage all sales consutants to show up to this month's union meeting. Some are meeting this week, most are next week. The reason why is to demonstrate that we outnumber techs and other CWA members in those cities with call centers. We also need to demonstrate that if we are screwed out of our pay raise that we can cause problems with our overwhelming numbers.

If you have never or never will go to any union meetings, this month is the time!

BTW, there is conflicting information coming from the union and from management about the SC pay raise screwover. Some management is saying CWA never asked for SC's to get the raises, CWA is saying they did ask for the raises. We need to find out the truth here, because the truth can determine our next actions with regards to the CWA.

A comment made in the MSN "" Employee Disconnected board in regards to the SC initiatives was that we need to look at the larger picture and not be selfish about our own pay raises. We respond that the larger picture shows CWA is not a true 'union' if they hang out one group to dry. The larger picture will show that one group can cause major problems for the CWA if we are left out of the pay raise.

We need an addendum to extend the same raises to SC's or we need to vote this contract down.

Please please please comment and mention this source to your co-workers.

We have a copy of the LOA expiring in December 2005 and are considering posting it here for informational purposes.