{"id":5437,"date":"2021-03-14T17:45:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T00:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/?p=5437"},"modified":"2021-03-14T17:45:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T00:45:13","slug":"verizon-2020-tentative-agreement-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/?p=5437","title":{"rendered":"Verizon 2020 tentative agreement announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On behalf of Frank Arce, Vice\nPresident<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am pleased to announce a tentative\nfour-year agreement between CWA&nbsp;and Verizon Select Services, Inc. The\nTelecom Vice Presidents on CWA&#8217;s Executive Board have unanimously approved the\nagreement and the bargaining committee recommends ratification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nagreement contains many improvements and none of the&nbsp;changes to the\ncurrent contract are retrogressive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Improvements include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Dental Plan individual yearly allotment<\/li><li>Enhanced Vision Plan<\/li><li>Vacation Days &#8211; Up to 4 may be used in 4-hour increments<\/li><li>Increased Protective Footwear Allowance<\/li><li>Increased On-Call Differential<\/li><li>Verizon Wireless Services Discounts<\/li><li>11.2% Cumulative Wage Increase over the term of the\nagreement<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A Local Presidents&#8217; call will be\nscheduled within the next few days to go over details of the agreement and the\nratification process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tikisha Williams<br>\nConfidential Administrative Assistant to the Vice President Frank Arce<br>\nAdministrative Assistant to Domonique Thomas, Assistant to the Vice President<br>\nCommunications Workers of America, AFL-CIO, District 9<br>\n(916) 921-4500 office<br>\n(916) 213-3742 cell\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On behalf of Frank Arce, Vice President I am pleased to announce a tentative four-year agreement between CWA&nbsp;and Verizon Select Services, Inc. The Telecom Vice Presidents on CWA&#8217;s Executive Board have unanimously approved the agreement and the bargaining committee recommends &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/?p=5437\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-verizon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}