Comcast News and Bargaining Updates

Bargaining resumed for the Cortland facility on June 22, 2007. Comcast came in with no new proposals for the union, Local 21 is standing on its prior requests - our Union will not move away from what you and your bargaining committee deserves, a contract that is just, with EQUAL and FAIR WAGES AND BENEFIT’S. Comcast must learn that slavery was abolished by our 16th president in 1865! Wake up Comcast!

Comcast is not listening, but the efforts on the streets are really what it is all about. City of Chicago Alderman are very upset and will not tolerate workers living in their communities to be discriminated against. They have vowed to support you the worker anyway they can.

Our union has meetings scheduled next week and through July with more City of Chicago Alderman, the city’s cable commission and with Mayor Daley’s office to discuss the union’s complaint filed with the cable commissioner. Local 21 wants to be clear that we are not asking the city to resolve our labor dispute but our union is demanding that the cable commission should conduct hearings with respect to the discrimination by Comcast on wages and benefits. As you know by now Comcast filed an EEO / AA plan with the city of Chicago and promised to maintain and pay equitable wages and benefits to all Comcast employees in the city of Chicago. Simply put, Comcast vowed not to discriminate against minorities. Comcast has chosen to violate its own policy by discriminating against some of its own workers - by paying $7 to $9 dollars an hour less to employee’s doing the same work. The action of Comcast works against what this city is made of, that working families should not be discriminated against, and workers should be able to make an affordable living so they can afford to shop and live in the city of Chicago.

Brothers and Sisters in the Cortland facility - as stated before, it is imperative that you talk to your Alderman. If they have not received a packet from you TAKE them one. If they have your packet follow up with them and let them know that you want them to support immediate hearings on the complaint filed by our union. See a steward or bargaining committee member for more information.

Remember get involved; ask questions, read your Union bulletin board. Stay strong and lock arms with one another and we will last one day longer. Solidarity!