CWA - Local 7603

From the CWA Archives: It's Wear-Red Day! (1994)

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Per CWA District 7, Lumen employees:

We have received confirmation that the $1,000 ratification bonus will be paid on October 31, 2025. The bonus will be included in the same check as your regular paycheck.

This just in from District 7 for Lumen members:

We are pleased to announce that the new Collective Bargaining Agreement has been ratified!

CWA members at Lumen have overwhelmingly approved the tentative agreement reached earlier this month, with 91% voting in favor and 9% opposed.

This new three-year agreement delivers significant wage increases, a $ 1,000.00 ratification bonus payable within four weeks of ratification, strengthens our successorship language to protect members in the event of future sales, and expands our neutrality agreement, ensuring a path forward for unionized workers at Lumen. We are currently in the process of setting up a meeting with LUMEN to start negotiations over enhancements to the EVSPP LOA.

This contract is a big win for our members, but the work doesn’t stop here. We still have fights ahead; we need to enforce our agreement, organize the unorganized, and keep building our power on the job and in our communities.

When we stand together to build our future, we win!

7603 heavily represented on these pictures!

CWA members have reached a tentative agreement with Lumen!

When Lumen announced four months ago that it would sell its most profitable mass-market fiber assets to AT&T, workers’ voices and futures were left out of the deal. After decades of loyal service and union contracts, Lumen’s proposed deal offered no protection for workers. CWA District 7 members fought back and reached a tentative agreement this week to protect themselves in case of future sales and to empower more Lumen workers to join our union.

CWAers won this tentative agreement by mobilizing in the workplace, in the community, with state Attorneys General, at state Public Utility Commissions, and at the federal level. Members’ mobilization efforts brought AT&T and Lumen to the table to address member concerns.

The tentative agreement expands neutrality language to all of Lumen and Lumen subsidiaries across the 15-state region of CWA District 7, opening the door to bring more members into our union. CWAers negotiated improved language to ensure that CWA members keep our union and our union contract in the case of future transactions or sales of any part of the Qwest business. Members also secured signing bonuses and annual 4 percent wage increases.

No worker should ever be treated as corporate collateral, to be traded or disposed of as corporate executives carve up the businesses members built. By standing together and fighting back as a union, CWA members at Lumen have asserted their dignity and worth.

Members will be voting on the tentative agreement in the coming weeks.

Lumen employees!!! We are using electronic voting for the ratification vote this year! The ballots went out this morning to your inbox. Please follow the simple instructions to cast your vote. If you have any questions, please reach out to Jessica or Curt.

Elections are open until Oct 16 at 11am!

Lumen employees, WE HAVE A TENTATIVE AGREEMENT!!!

Details were emailed today, and CWA District 7 will be holding a zoom meeting Wednesday evening to discuss details further. If you did not get the email and want to get these updates, please reach out to me of your officers.

Lumen employees… check your email for a bargaining update!

Please don't forget, there is a membership meeting tonight! Check your email for the zoom link, or be at the hall at 7 to join us!