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IBEW Local 21 Organizing at Comcast
Comcast workers in Chicago, in the suburbs, and throughout Illinois and NW Indiana are organizing, uniting and taking a stand against Comcast Corporation to improve their wages, hours, and working conditions in work locations throughout the Greater Chicago Market. Hundreds of employees are already represented by our union, enjoying the respect, dignity and benefits provided by a negotiated collective bargaining agreement with their employer.
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Contrary to what Comcast management says, union membership at Comcast is not just about pay and benefits. Its way of life, a belief that you can accomplish more by standing together with your coworkers to improve conditions at Comcast. Think for a moment how powerful you can be if all 4000 plus Comcast employees join together in solidarity, demanding improvements in your wages, scheduled work hours, and other benefits. You have the power to create change when you unite. By joining the IBEW you will gain respect and dignity at work, have safer working conditions and a larger voice in deciding how your job is performed.
The Union is about you. You play a fundamental role in its success or failure. When company executives and local managers hand down detrimental decisions affecting you and your family on issues of pay, benefits, working conditions or even job security, by challenging those changes as group you will be more successful rather than facing them alone as an individual. One of the greatest benefits of being a union member is the right to have union representation when in meetings with management. These rights are called Weingarten Rights. One of the most vital functions of a union stewards is to prevent management from intimidating employees. Nowhere is this more important than in closed-door meetings when supervisors, security personnel or guards, often trained in interrogation techniques, attempting to coerce employees into confessing to wrongdoing. Union members enjoy the benefits of a negotiated grievance/arbitration procedure, so workplace disputes between workers and their managers are resolved peacefully, fair and without favoritism or discrimination.
There is a lot of misinformation being spread by others about Unions. Comcast bosses have been trained to convince you that you don’t need a union, and that you will do better without one. The straight forward truth is the improvements in wages and benefits over the last few years are because of the continued union organizing throughout the Greater Chicago Market. Management wants you to believe that Comcast gave you the increases, and that Comcast cares. The truth is - companies like Comcast pay more during union organizing efforts so workers will hopefully forget why they wanted a union in the first place. If the improvements over the last few years are because the IBEW is actively organizing here, just think of the improvements workers can enjoy once they join. We believe the best way to understand what being a union member is about is by talking to representatives and other members of our union.