November Membership Meeting
The November Membership Meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at 7 p.m. at the Pallas Restaurant located at 1657 S 108th Street. The meeting date and place is subject to change based on the current conditions with Covid. Any changes will be posted on our Website and Facebook page.
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NOTIFICATION OF RUNOFF LOCAL ELECTION
Ballots will only be accepted by US Mail to
PO BOX 14037, West Allis, WI 53214
Run-off elections for the offices of Secretary/Treasurer, Chief Steward for District #2 and District #3 will take place by mail in ballots only and must be received no later than 4:00pm on November 18th, 2020 at CWA 4603 PO Box 14037, West Allis, WI 53214. The term of office will run January 1st, 2021 through December 31st, 2023. The candidates selected as President, Executive Vice President and Secretary/Treasurer will also serve as a delegate to the CWA National Convention for the term of office.
The following candidates will be on the run-off ballot as they appear below:
Secretary/Treasurer
Wendy Fonseca
Holly Sherard
District #2
Josh Bailey
Adam Schelske
District #3
Leandra Evans
Kwami Barnes
The run-off election ballots will be sent to each member in good standing to their address on record no later than Wednesday October 28th, 2020. No additional markings on the ballots will be accepted. The Local will supply a pre-addressed return envelope.
Ballots for these offices must be received by mail only:
Date: Wednesday – November 18th, 2020
Time: By 4:00 pm
Place: CWA 4603
PO Box 14037
West Allis, WI 53214
Ballots will be picked up at the CWA 4603 PO BOX by two (2) members of the Election Committee on Wednesday, November 18th, 2020 at 4:00 pm. Ballots will then be counted at Pallas Restaurant 1657 S. 108th St, West Allis WI. at 4:30 pm on Wednesday, November 18th, 2020. Each candidate may have an observer when the ballots are picked up and when the vote is counted.
Results will be announced after the ballots are counted and certified by the Election Committee.
Any member who has paid dues through the prior month will be eligible to vote.
RESULTS OF THE OCTOBER 21, 2020 ELECTION FOR CC&N UNIT COORDINATOR
Beau Labonte - 3
Jesse Glodoski - 28
Statement from the CWA Executive Board on the Need to Dismantle the Racism that Plagues Our Communities
Friday, May 29, 2020
As we reach a tragic milestone of 100,000 deaths due to COVID-19, we find ourselves confronting the other plague that has been rampaging through our communities since long before the pandemic: Racism. Compounding the devastation of a global pandemic, which has disproportionately impacted Black communities, Black people in America continue to face threats, brutality, and death for going out jogging. For being poor. For sleeping in their own bed. For watching birds in a park. For being Black.
The murders of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and the blatant display of racism in the Central Park incident with Christian Cooper demonstrate, again, this grim reality. These names are not the first, and without a profound change in ourselves and this country, they will not be the last.
The CWA Executive Board is committed to moving beyond an endless string of reaction statements and demonstrating our continued commitment to justice for Black people through our organizing, representation, political, and movement building work. We commit to creating dedicated spaces for open dialogue on race for our members and leaders to determine outcomes and clear steps the union must take to fight racism in the union, within the industries we represent and the community at-large.
There is no in-between. There is no neutral option. The only real way to dismantle racism and build the working-class power we seek is for every worker to take on the struggle for justice for Black people in this country as their own and to embrace the actions that "an injury to one is an injury to all" demands of us.
It is not enough to punish the perpetrators who have taken these Black lives. It is not enough to simply identify a "few bad apples" to fire or prosecute - a course of action which our deeply flawed legal system makes difficult to pursue. We must also do the hard, transformational work of rooting out racism in America's consciousness and the institutions that uphold it.
This work is necessary because these incidents did not happen in isolation. They happened in the context of 400 years of structural and systematic anti-Black racism. They happened in the context of centuries of stolen labor; economic pillaging by corporate America of Black communities; underfunding of public schools and services; over-criminalization and incarceration of Black bodies; the use of police as military-like forces in poor, Black and Brown neighborhoods; outsourcing of good, union jobs; persistence of food deserts in urban areas; the treatment of addiction as a crime rather than a disease; the fractured, profit-driven health care system; and the “surgical precision” of Black voter disenfranchisement.
The only pathway to a just society for all is deep, structural change. Justice for Black people is inextricably linked to justice for all working people - including White people. The bosses, the rich, and the corporate executives have known this fact and have used race as one of the most effective and destructive ways to divide workers. Unions have a duty to fight for power, dignity and the right to live for every working-class person in every place. Our fight and the issues we care about do not stop when workers punch out for the day and leave the garage, call center, office, or plant.
We will never build enough power as working people if an entire community is living under the threat of death and subject to discrimination based on the color of their skin. We will never build enough power if an entire community has its neck under an oppressor's knee.
If we are to make progress, we must listen to the experiences and stories of Black CWA members, Black workers, and the Black community. We must join together - every one of us - to dismantle this system of oppression. This means every White union member, Black union member, Latino union member and every ally, must fight and organize for Black lives. Thoughts and prayers aren't enough. No amount of statements and press releases will bring back the lives lost and remedy the suffering our communities have to bear. We must move to action.
President Christopher Shelton
Secretary-Treasurer Sara Steffens
District 1 Vice President Dennis Trainor
District 2-13 Vice President Edward Mooney
District 3 Vice President Richard Honeycutt
District 4 Vice President Linda Hinton
District 6 Vice President Claude Cummings, Jr.
District 7 Vice President Brenda Roberts
District 9 Vice President Frank Arce
AFA-CWA President Sara Nelson
IUE-CWA President Carl Kennebrew
TNG-CWA President Jon Schleuss
NABET-CWA President Charles Braico
T&T Vice President Lisa Bolton
PHEW Vice President Margaret Cook
CWA Canada President Martin O’Hanlon
Diversity At-Large Member Dante Harris
Diversity At-Large Member Vera Mikell
Diversity At-Large Member Carolyn Wade
Diversity At-Large Member Erika White
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Information about Scholarships is Available
The Local 4603 L.A.S. Scholarship and the CWA Joe Beirne Scholarship information is now available.
Click HERE to be taken to the "Scholarships" page for information on how to apply.
This poster was created by one of our own members who shall remain anonymous to protect his privacy.
It is a response to the "CODE" acronym poster AT&T has posted at various locations.
Click on the poster to print your own to post and distribute.
Keep calling Congress. Make an IMPACT!
ARE YOU STILL TAKING IT TO THE STREET?
WE NEED TO CONTINUE THE FIGHT!
CWA is running ads to raise awareness of AT&T's broken promise to use a portion of its $20 billion tax break to "create 7,000 good jobs for the middle class" and to ask members of Congress who voted for AT&T's $20 billon tax break to hold the company accountable. You can listen to the initial launch of the ads at
https://www.goodjobsatt.org/radio-ads-atts-tax-breaks-and-broken-promises
We also need you to spread the word and get as many people as you can to listen to the ads and sign the petition at https://www.goodjobsatt.org/
AT&T continues to offshore and contract enormous amounts of work while continuing to downsize it’s represented workforce in the US. CEO Stephenson pledged to create 7,000 jobs with $1 billion AT&T it expects to save on taxes. At an event hosted by The Economic Club of New York Stephenson said.
“These are 7,000 jobs of people putting fiber in ground, hard hat jobs that make $70,000 to $80,000 per year,”
AT&T continues to drag its feet in negotiations and fails to address our key issues.
It’s time to turn up the heat and keep mobilizing. Spread the word on AT&T.
WHEN WE FIGHT WE WIN!
#NOJOBSNODEAL
Tell AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson:
"I support good jobs and a fair union contract for working people at AT&T."
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