IBEW, CWA, and Verizon have reached a Tentative Agreement to extend the collective bargaining agreements for a three-year period. The current agreements are set to expire on August 5, 2023. Once ratified, the agreements will extend through August 1, 2026.
The contracts will include long-term work-from-home provisions. Pending ratification of the contracts, the current work-from-home arrangements will continue.
Ratification voting is now closed
We will post the names of all active and retired members as we are made aware of their passing.
Please call or email any death notices – Thank You
Around the corner, I have a friend,
In this great city that has no end;
Yet days go by, and weeks rush on,
And before I know it, a year is gone,
And I never see my old friend’s face,
For Life is a swift and terrible race.
He knows I like him just as well
As in the days when I rang his bell.
And he rang mine.
We were younger then,
And now we are busy, tired men:
Tired with playing a foolish game,
Tired with trying to make a name.
“Tomorrow,” I say, “I will call on Jim,
Just to show that I’m thinking of him.”
But tomorrow comes, and tomorrow goes,
And the distances between us grows and grows.
Around the corner, yet miles away . . .
“Here’s a telegram, sir…
Jim died today.”
And that’s what we get, and deserve in the end:
Around the corner, a vanished friend.
Lawrence Edwards
July 4, 2024
