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QWEST
07/10/08
Contract Expires August 16, 2008
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05/21/08 Members Must Also Learn To Protect
Themselves A message from Mike Tulloch
To all members of Local 7803: No matter what
company you work for you need to get better at protecting yourselves.
With the way the companies that our membership
works for in this day and age, we all need to learn to protect
ourselves better. Make sure to document any roadblocks or any issues
you encounter throughout the day, be it staying at a location to
long, safety meetings, lunches, breaks, customer contact, you need to
document everything. I know it's a pain to have to do
this but its one of the best ways to cover yourselves.
Qwest has unreal expectations of how much work
a technician can accomplish on a normal 8 hour work day. No matter what
you accomplish they will continue to increase their
expectations. Craft people need to quit coming into work early and
working without pay trying to get ahead on their work. We work to live,
not live to work! You need to take your 15 minute breaks and your 30
minute lunch breaks. These are covered by State laws, you need to take
this time, its your right.
Those of you who think you are going to stay out of
trouble by using your own time to do company work, are now seeing that
the company will just keep raising the expectations. You are
falsifying your timesheet and the company can terminate you for
falsifying your time. If you keep working without pay to accomplish
your daily work, pretty soon you will have to come into work at 4am and
work until 8pm to meet the companies unreal expectations and still
receiving only 8 hours of pay.
Just remember anytime it suits their fancy,
they will just up the bogey trying to make themselves look better. We
all know that occasionally things work out and we can actually
exceed expectations, but normally this isn't the rule with all
the roadblocks we run into and the condition of the plant.
Next, anytime management asks to speak with
you the first thing that should come out of your mouth is,.. "I would like Union Representation",
and have them provide you representation before they proceed. If they
tell you "No" "ask if this meeting could lead to discipline"? If they
tell you "
No", then have them write out a piece of paper and have them write that
this letter or document in no way can be used or lead to discipline.
Have them sign it, date it and have a copy of it attached to their
documentation. Then you need to the original for your own records.
Never hesitate to ask for Union Representation, its your right as a
union member.
You may like your direct manager but they are
getting their direction from above. Whether you like them or not you
need to protect yourself and your way of life and asking for Union
Representation is one of the best ways to do that.
In Solidarity,
Michael S. Tulloch
Executive Vice
President
Local 7803
01/24/08
Notice To All Qwest Members: Dental Plan
(District 7 Jan
23, 2008) We were getting calls about Qwest canceling dental
coverage with Met Life.
Apparently, MetLife had an auto-termination
feature turned on when they received the files for employee
coverage. Consequently, MetLife terminated a subset of the Qwest
population (we'll still not totally sure who yet) when loading the
eligibility file.
It is our understanding MetLife and Citistreet
reloaded the file last night to correct the issue.
We will keep you posted.
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