1/22/2020
 
JOHNSON CONTROLS BARGAINING REPORT #1

On January 21st and 22nd, 2020, your CWA Bargaining Committee began
negotiations for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. After extensive
preparation and two long days of bargaining we were unable to reach a Tentative
Agreement. In large part were the company’s unreasonable retrogressive
proposals. We did agree on numerous items and made significant movement but
your committee could not concede to a significant decrease in on-call pay, and a
15 minute increase in drive time. The company also wanted to go to a
performance based pay scale based on your yearly appraisals. When asked to
provide these appraisals to the Union for review, they stated they did not have
them. The company was unable to substantiate the reasons for their proposals.
Your Bargaining Committee has several items left addressing job security and
Holiday and Vacation enhancements that are being provided to other employees
within the company. We remain steadfast and strong to bring you a Fair and Just
Agreement. We will not be bullied into accepting changes to things that have
been long standing in the contract. Since an agreement was not reached we made
sure the company provided us future dates to resume negotiations. We will go
back to the table on March 10th and 11th, 2020.
We appreciate your support and ask you stay united!

In solidarity,
Your CWA Bargaining Committee