CWA organizing at Cingular!

SWITCH TO CINGULAR CAMPAIGN

As you know, the Communications Workers of America has undertaken one of the nation's largest and most successful organizing campaigns at Cingular Wireless. The CWA now represents more than 38,000 workers at Cingular (and counting). Cingular Wireless is the distinct exception in the wireless industry, which is both unorganized and actively anti-union (this includes Verizon Wireless, Sprint-Nextel, and T-Mobile, along with other, less visible companies).

CWA needs our help to support its ongoing organizing effort at Cingular. One key way to do that is to encourage union-friendly households and firms to switch their cell phone service to Cingular Wireless, and away from companies like Verizon Wireless until such companies stop fighting CWA's efforts to organize its workers.

LCC members are encouraged to support Section 7 rights for workers by switching to Cingular which honors its policy of neutrality towards union organizing, and recognizes card check elections. In fact, on April 6, 2006 Cingular Wireless will be receiving the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award from American Rights at Work "for its partnership with CWA to truly respect workers' freedom to make their own choice about forming a union. "

TO CINGULAR WIRELESS

When switching carriers, please send a letter from you or your firm to Cingular Wireless, thanking it for its commitment to honor employee free choice and to its CWA partnership and union-friendly policies. Send that correspondence to:

Stan Sigman, CEO
Cingular Wireless
Glenridge Highlands Two
5565 Glenridge Connector
Atlanta, Georgia 30342

TO VERIZON WIRELESS

For those LCC members who are using Verizon Wireless (where the CWA has been working to organize despite vicious anti-union activities), we urge you to also let them know why you are switching to Cingular. We are including the text of a letter that you may wish to send:

Ivan Seidenberg, Chairman and CEO
Verizon Communications
1095 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10036

Dear Mr. Seidenberg:

I write to inform you that until worker rights are respected at Verizon Wireless my firm will cease to do business with your company. The expiration date of my contract is [TO BE FILLED IN]. When my contract expires I will be changing my cellular service to Cingular Wireless, which respects worker rights. I am aware that union activists at Verizon Wireless have been fired and retaliated against, and that Verizon Wireless failed to abide by its own neutrality and card-check recognition agreement with the CWA. Verizon Wireless employees deserve the right to freely and fairly form a union.

Sincerely,
[YOU]

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