IBEW 2320

Employees & Retirees

SCHOLARSHIPS

 

COLLETTE LEMAY SCHOLARSHIP

 

Click here to download:  scholarship 2009

Death benefits/ Life Insurance

             A Death benefit that is available to those members that were on the Bell Atlantic payroll as of August 1986. This benefit is over and above the life insurance that our members receive from the company.

The life insurance is one year’s salary at the time of death or what your salary was when you retired. That benefit begins reducing at the age of 65 and goes to half  of your salary at the age of 70. It does not reduce any more that 50% of the year’s salary at the time that you retired.

The death benefit would be also a year’s salary, but no more than $39,000.00. That amount of money does not reduce with age. The company does not inform our members of this benefit. It is very important that you call the benefits center @ 877-489-2367 or 877-275-8947 and ask if you qualify for this death benefit and if you do, ask them to send you a certificate acknowledging the benefit for your records.

A family member has one year from the time of your passing to collect this benefit. After the one year, the death benefit is gone.

Please pass this on to as many of our retired and active members that were on the payroll as of August 1986.

Steps:

1 (877) 275-89471.          

Select Compensation & Benefits

2.           The Benefits Center

3.           Ask them for certificate

            4.     Acknowledging benefit

Safety

Safety or Productivity:  Which should come first?
Verizon fires seven technicians for low productivity, days after employee killed on the job   Union members throughout Massachusetts were reeling after Verizon announced the termination of seven FiOS installation technicians on October 30, less than one week after losing a co-worker in an on-the-job accident.   The seven techs were accused by Verizon management of not making productivity quotas for customer installations.  Six of the workers were members of IBEW Local 2222 in the Boston area and one was a member of Local 2325 near Worcester.   "No one in the company is making that job quota.  It's grossly unfair to hold these new members to an arbitrary standard, set above the national average for Verizon techs," said Myles Calvey, Business Manager of Local 2222.  "And its especially appalling after a member was killed just four days earlier.  Pushing for an unreasonable and unattainable quota only puts the members and the public at risk."    Gary Gibbons, a 34-year Verizon service technician and member of Local 2322 was electrocuted on October 26 while working in a bucket truck in Plymouth, MA.  His death is currently being investigated by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.   Union stewards questioned whether productivity was the motivation for these terminations.  None of the fired members had the lowest productivity numbers in their work groups.  In fact, one of the fired techs was the top producer in his group.    Under the current labor agreement with Verizon, members with less than 12 months service are not eligible to have a neutral arbitrator decide the merits of a termination.  Each of the techs was approaching their 12-month service dates and the company terminated them before the full job security provisions went into effect.   Leaders of the IBEW's System T6 Council are exploring all of their options to gain the immediate reinstatement of the seven technicians, including asking members for a strike authorization vote.    IBEW's System T6 Council unites about 8,000 telephone workers throughout New England.

COPE

IBEW 2320 COPE is he political Action Committee for the working men and women of New Hampshire.

Our job on the COPE Committee is to inform & mobilize union families and encourage the participation of all in the political process. Contributions to our COPE Fund helps by giving us the resources we need to have a stronger political voice which, in turn, makes us a more powerful and effective union.

Our goal is to educate our membership on the candidates and to identify which political candidate will best serve our goals such as:

· Passing legislation that protects our jobs & wages

· The right to form & join a union

· Living wage

· Fair labor standards

The Company pumps millions of dollars into their Political Action Committee's that represent their corporate interests.

The Union needs to be proactive to protect our way of life and to fight corporate greed !

In conjunction with the NH AFL-CIO, and other unions around the state, we will be presenting candidates to you that we endorse for the good of the union.  Our hope is not only that you contribute to the COPE Fund, but that you make it a point to be involved in the political process.  Candidates are chosen, not by party affiliation, but by their response to Labor and our issues.

Thank you from the Committee on Political Education

Kelly Torosian, Chairperson

Steve Poole, Co-Chair

For more info on COPE please call the office:  669-8657

 

 

 

 

The Next Step Program allows contract qualified Verizon associates who are members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) or the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) to earn an Associate in Applied Science degree in Telecommunications Technology from a participating college.

Many of the Next Step Students are among the Top 10 Graduates among the College's graduating classes.  Several Next Step Students have been Valedictorians at College Graduation Ceremonies.

Click graphic to visit Next Step page——>

EWEB

Your 401K

Short Term disability

Next step link for the class of 2005

http://mysite.verizon.net/respugvo/

To schedule a class to qualify for an upcoming bid : 

Copy & paste the form below into a Word Doc, fill out and fax

 

PRE-TEST TRAINING REQUEST

Please fill out form completely.

Forms not filled out completely will be returned.

Forms that have been altered from the original format will be discarded.

Today’s Date:______________________                    Bid: Yes ____ or No _____

Name:____________________________                    S.S.# or Employee Id:_________________________

Job Title:__________________________                   NCS Date:__________________________________

Work Address:_______________________                Local IBEW#:_______________________________

___________________________________                Local CWA#:________________________________

___________________________________                Manager’s Name:_____________________________

Work Tel.#/C.P.#:_____________________               Manager’s Work Tel #:________________________

Fax#:_______________________________               Fax #:______________________________________

Email Address:_______________________________________________________(For class notification)

Training Package Requested (CHECK ONLY ONE):

Primary Test:

_________       Universal Test Battery (UTB)

 

Secondary Tests:        Must be UTB Qualified to request secondary packages.

 

             _________       Technical Mini Course  (Tech MC)

             _________       Facility Assignment and Control System Loop

                                       Assignment Center Mini Course (FACS/LAC MC)

             _________       Customer Contact Evaluation – Revised and

                                       Keyboard Skills Test (CCE-R/KST)

             _________       Customer Assistant Role Play (CART-M)

             _________       Fiber Customer Support Analyst (CIKT-FCSA)

_________       Fiber Network Technician (NIDRT-FNT)

 

FAX TO PRE-TEST COORDINATOR AT 802-864-0789

 

Revised June 11, 2008

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