CWA 2011 Negotiations News    
We’re All in This Together!

Our Contract expires June 30, 2011.  We know that these may be the most difficult negotiations we have ever had. Governor Christie is already attacking our wages, our pensions, our benefits, and our job security. He wants to scapegoat public workers and score political points by putting the blame for New Jersey’s budget problems entirely on us. And If we know anything about this Governor, he will try to divide us: worker against worker, older against younger, union against union, and job against job. 

But we will not fall for that.  We will remain unified and committed to solidarity and our collective well being.  We are not young vs. old.  Women vs. men.  People with families vs. single people, or any
other polar opposites.  We are all people who earn our living providing crucial services to the public.  And we are all CWA.

As CWA members we are going to fight – together – to protect our jobs and the services that we provide to New Jersey.  We recognize that we enter these negotiations in a bad economy, and we 
will continue to  act responsibly and protect  the well being of our State and its people.  But we fight
to protect the fundamental gains we have achieved.   We will not allow anyone to take away middle-class jobs from the working people of New Jersey.

Our ability to remain unified during this struggle will be the key to getting through these negotiations and protecting our jobs and public services.

Contract surveys will come out in the next several weeks.  This year’s survey will be a little different -- we will try to measure what our members’ priorities are, as opposed to concentrating on individual contract provisions. We need everyone to participate in filling out the surveys and to be a part of all mobilization activities that will come up during this contract fight. 

Communication will be key.  Please make sure that we have your contact information so that
you are regularly updated through CWA phone calls, email, text messages, letters, and worksite meetings.  Please provide the most up-to-date information by filling out the form below and faxing
it to 732-750-4743.

In Solidarity,

Your Bargaining Team!

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