WHAT THE PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WILL HURT THEM
The next Membership Meeting will be held:
Tuesday, April 1st, 2025
7:00 P.M.
CWA Local 3871 Office
5074 Bluff City Hwy, Bluff City TN 37618
Email: president@unionforever3871.com
April 2025 Membership Meeting
Tuesday, April 1 · 7:00 – 9:00pm
Time zone: America/New_York
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/ser-mzkv-kyd
March 2025 Membership Meeting Highlights
Finance- Please reach out to Timothy Mullady for any questions about the finance report.
New Members- The Local voted in three new members this month.
Alliance Mobile- Members who participated in the election of this location have all left the Company. Samantha has no contact information for any of the current employees there so she and someone from District will be visiting on March 25th .
Holston Rehabilitation and Care Center- Bargaining has officially started. After several attempts the Union had its first bargaining session on February 25th, 2025. The Union and the Company were able to propose and resolve several items on the first day of bargaining and anticipate future sessions to go just as smoothly. Samantha and Megan held a call last month to go over the process of bargaining with membership. Bargaining updates will be provided to membership respectively.
AT&T- The Mail order grievance is currently in limbo while waiting on more information from District. All seniority grievances are still in recess while waiting on the NLRB to process the labor charges filed by the Local. There are Unity at Mobility classes coming up in the new few months. Samantha has started a list of those wanting to attend and is working on getting people scheduled for the April’s class. There are also two diversity classes coming up on April 8th and 9th that membership will be attending. All of these classes will be reimbursed. Congratulations to Megan Mitnaul and Melissa Rush on how successful they have been in new hire classes for the new line of business of MSS. We were recently informed that the May Collections class has been cancelled. All hiring this year as of now will be in the new line of business of sales and service.
Brightspeed- The Company officially replaced the TN MRO. Samantha shared she had just learned of an employee who was placed back in the FRM position. Contractually there is no violation at this time. There was only one volunteer for the involuntary transfer notice. An employee has been bumped because of this, and their expected last day of work is March 17th 2025. Samantha received no notice of acceptance from the Galax SIPP offer that was sent at the same time as the involuntary transfer notice. The Brightspeed AVP will be reaching out to the Company on March 6th 2025 to schedule orientation for new hires.
No items were brought forth for open discussion