I am Jack's anger gradually dulling to resignation.

We did not get any addendum to give SC's any wage increase. It was a farce. CWA's position is that SC's are paid comparably to other sales consultants in the telecom industry, and they did not want to waste their time and efforts fighting to get us raises like they fought for all the other groups.

We SC's will all likely vote no on the contract proposal, most of the other CWA members (techs, assignments, care, typists, etc.) will all likely vote yes, and the contract will likely pass. What do they care about the concept of union? They got their raises. We SC's are in the minority, and it seems the CWA 'union' has shown their true colors: they've screwed us over and sold us out.

CWA's position also is that we receive a bonus structure, so our pay is partially dependent on ourselves. My position is that CWA can fuck themselves, because everyone can participate in the YOU CAN referral program, and that creates a bonus structure for everyone in the company.

Furthermore, every referral made to YOU CAN goes to management workers, therefore taking sales oppportunities away from SC's who are supposedly depending on those sales opportunities as part of our paychecks.

The company communicates that SC's are not doing the best job we can by granting raises to every group but us. The CWA communicates that we are second-class dues-paying members by not fighting for us along with every other group. The whole affair disappoints and disgusts me.

I will stop posting to this blog because I am disheartened and resigned that we cannot fight not only the company, but our own union. I plan to tear up my union card and drop it on my head steward's desk the day after the new contract is ratified.

I will also quit my union leadership position. I truly enjoy the difference I make, but I cannot keep my self respect if I continue standing by an organization that stabbed me in the back. I'll take my chances with management; at least I know where they stand.

The CWA is so retarded that they apparently cannot even do the math:

• The raises more than pay for the increased health premiums CWA caved on.
• CWA annual dues more than pay for those increased health premiums.
• Therefore, SC's will likely quit the union to recoup their losses on the health premiums.

I considered deleting this blog entirely, but I will leave it up to warn the world about the pile of lying, spineless bullshit that the CWA truly is.

Change or die, CWA. You are on the downhill slope now.

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.