If an employee has a reasonable belief that discipline or other adverse consequences may result from what he or she says, the employee has the right to request union representation. Management is not required to inform the employee of his/her Weingarten rights; it is the employees responsibility to know and request.

"If this discussion can in any way lead to me being disciplined, I respectfully request union representation before I answer any questions"

Protect yourself! Learn it, use it!

The Executive Board welcomes all Communications Workers of America, AFL,CIO Local 1120 members to our web page. The purpose of this web page is to provide a means of supplying information about our local and labor issues.    To all cwa local 1120 members. I want to thank all of my fellow union brothers and sisters for their commitment, and determination in keeping our local strong. Together we can overcome any challenge that we may face.

Frank J. Fauci Jr.
President, CWA Local 1120

 We must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as ‘right to work.’ It is a law to rob us of our civil rights and job rights.
Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining by which unions have improved wages and working conditions of everyone…Wherever these laws have been passed, wages are lower, job opportunities are fewer and there are no civil rights. We do not intend to let them do this to us. We demand this fraud be stopped. Our weapon is our vote.”

Martin Luther King

Scholarship Final deadline for applications is April 30, 2018.

Sixteen partial college scholarships of $4,000 each are being offered for the 2018-2019 school year. Winners, selected in a lottery drawing, also will receive second-year scholarships of the same amount contingent upon satisfactory academic accomplishment.  Part-time students, less than 12 credits, will receive half of the scholarship monies.

Eligible for the awards are CWA members and their spouses, children and grandchildren, including those of retired or deceased members.

Click here for more infomation on Joseph Beirne who is considered CWA's founding leader.

Click here for SCHOLORSHIP APPLICATION and information.

Click here for Scholarship Information Poster.

As of January 1, 2018, most employees who work in New York State for private employers are eligible to take Paid Family Leave. If you are a public employee, your employer may choose to offer Paid Family Leave.

New York’s Paid Family Leave provides job-protected, paid time off so you can:

• bond with a newly born, adopted or fostered child;
• care for a close relative with a serious health condition; or
• assist loved ones when a family member is deployed abroad on active military service.

You can continue your health insurance while on leave and are guaranteed the same or a comparable job after your leave ends. If you contribute to the cost of your health insurance, you must continue to pay your portion of the premium cost while on Paid Family Leave.

Click here to view complete details on NY Paid Famiy Leave

Paid Family Leave Request Forms

Click here for forms to Bond with a Newborn, a Newly Adopted or Fostered Child

Click here for forms to Care for a Family Member with Serious Health Condition

Click here for forms to Assist Families in Connection with a Military Deployment

After almost a year of hard bargaining and unprecedented mobilization, we have reached a groundbreaking tentative agreement for 21,000 CWA members under the Orange contract at AT&T Mobility. 

Never before have we seen this level of mobilization for a fair contract, including a three-day strike that shut down hundreds of stores across the country, and never before have we won so much at the bargaining table. 

Click here to read the bargaining report with all the details.

For the first time at any wireless company in the country, workers have won guaranteed customer service work at U.S. call centers, representing an 80% increase in the share of total call volume over the current levels. We also won first-time job security protections and more stable pay and reduced intrusive surveillance at work. 

If you took part in mobilization activities, walked a strike line, wore a button or a sticker, passed out flyers, or called your managers demanding a fair contract - this is your victory. Our bargaining team could not have achieved this breakthrough tentative agreement without the hard work that you did fighting for a fair contract. 

We didn't win everything of course, but we moved forward together and will keep up the fight. 

Please join us for a town hall call on Thursday, December 14 at 8:30pm ET/ 7:30pm CT/ 6:30pm MT/ 5:30pm PT to learn more about the tentative agreement. Text MobilityCall to 69866 to RSVP to the call.

Together, we showed that we can beat back regressive proposals and make improvements at work when we stick together and mobilize. Let this be a sign to all companies that put profits above workers: when we stand together, we win.

In solidarity, 
Dennis Trainor 
CWA District 1 Vice President

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Election Notice

Following the nomination and acceptance procedures, these offices and candidates are uncontested in the upcoming election.

President: Frank Fauci

Executive-VP: Jim Gescheidle

Secretary-Treasurer: John Zeolla

Newburgh BA: Dave Cross

Kingston/Catskill BA: Mike Lutfring

Poughkeepsie BA: Sean Wiser

Educational Units BA Carl Bertsche

Following Department of Labor guidelines, no election is necessary for uncontested offices.

These candidates will begin their new term as outlined in the Local Bylaws.

The election For the Monticello Business Agent will be conducted on: November 2nd, 2017, between the hours of 12pm and 7pm at the polling location indicated below, and the ballots counted thereafter. The candidates are: Robert Espositoand Daved De La Cruz.

Only members represented by this office and are in good standing are eligible to vote and may be asked to present a Local 1120 membership card, driver’s license, or some other form of identification at the polls. Please note that this notice updates the previous election and nomination notice and this will be the only polling location open.

  Woodbourne Firehouse 355 State Route 52

                          12pm to 7pm

If you wish to request an absentee ballot, please call the Union Hall as soon as possible at 1-800-292-1120 or 845-485-7820.  Absentee ballots are available for members who are on a scheduled vacation, scheduled to work a shift which makes it impossible for them to reach the polling location on the date of the election, are either hospitalized or non-ambulatory, or whose reporting location is outside the footprint of the Local. We will need to verify your current address to make sure our records are correct. When you receive the ballot in the mail, please read very carefully the directions that will be included, and return the ballot in the enclosed envelopes as soon as possible. Please note that if you request an absentee ballot, you will not be permitted to vote at a polling location.Absentee ballots MUST arrive by November 2nd in order to be tallied.

Notice of Nomination and Election

NOMINATIONS

The CWA Local 1120 Election Committee will be accepting nominations for the office of President, Executive Vice President, Secretary-Treasurer and five Executive Board Members (area Business Agents). Any person is eligible to hold office if he or she has been a member in good standing for a period of one (1) calendar year. The term of office shall be for three years. The nominations of a person for the office of President, Executive Vice President, and Secretary-Treasurer shall also constitute the nominations of the same person as a delegate to CWA conventions held during the term of office for which the election is being conducted.

Interested candidates can obtain petitions for office starting September 25, 2017 at the CWA Local 1120 Union Hall located at 157 Van Wagner Rd Poughkeepsie New York. Petitions must be returned to the Union Hall by 5 pm on October 13, 2017. 

ELECTION

The election of President, Executive Vice President, Secretary-Treasurer and five Executive Board Members (area Business Agents) of Local 1120 will be conducted on: November 2nd, 2017, and the ballots counted thereafter. A vote cast for the candidate for the office of President, Executive Vice President, and Secretary-Treasurer shall also constitute a vote for such candidate to serve as a delegate to CWA conventions during the term of office for which the election is being conducted. 

Members of the following bargaining units can vote at the polling locations listed below between the hours of 12pm and 7pm: Arlington School, Avaya, Chartwell, Marist, New Paltz School, Sterling, Vassar, and Verizon. All other bargaining units will receive ballots in the mail.

Vassar College, College Center CN 204,

     Marist College, Lowell Thomas LT 016                                                                           

Only members in good standing are eligible to vote and may be asked to present a Local 1120 membership card, driver’s license, or some other form of identification at the polls.

If you wish to request an absentee ballot, please call the Union Hall as soon as possible at 1-800-292-1120 or 845-485-7820.  Absentee ballots are available for members who are on a scheduled vacation, scheduled to work a shift which makes it impossible for them to reach the polling location on the date of the election, are either hospitalized or non-ambulatory, or whose reporting location is outside the footprint of the Local. We will need to verify your current address to make sure our records are correct. When you receive the ballot in the mail, please read very carefully the directions that will be included, and return the ballot in the enclosed envelopes as soon as possible. Please note that if you request an absentee ballot, you will not be permitted to vote at a polling location. Absentee ballots MUST arrive by November 2nd in order to be tallied.