I would like to take this time to clear up some rumors that are going around about the stand outs that happened on May 1st. First of all, The union members that did the standouts in CT and RI were all Local 2323 members. 5 out of the 8 members were former Cox employees. The service time for those members that were formally employed by Cox ranged from 3-9 years. One of the former employees of Cox was terminated for policy issues and another was set up for being a union supporter. The other 3 former Cox employees left for the same reasons, BETTER PAY, BETTER BENEFITS, AND JOB SECURITY! I think I can speak for all of them now and say that WE ARE ALL IN A BETTER SITUATION NOW BECAUSE OF THE IBEW 2323! The other rumor going around was that we were making double time when we were doing the standout? WRONG!!! At our new employer we have a schedual called a DU schedual. What this is is the company, once a month, gives us a schedualed day off during the week and then we come in and work for straight time on Saturday. You probably are asking, What is you're working schedual? It is Monday - Friday 7:30am to 4:30p with 2 15 minute breaks and an hour lunch. If you do not have DU that week you can come in for Saturday on a time and a half salary. You ask, What about Sunday? Sunday is time and a half too up to 12 hours. After the 12 hours of time and a half it goes to double time. Yes double time! Just to clear the air , other than Craig Duffy, None of the members were paid for the stand out. It was strickly voluntary. Actually we passes up about $319.20 to do the stand out! That would be 7 IBEW 2323 members times $319.20. The grand total is $2234.40! We did the stand out because we have friends and people that we care about that work for Cox and wanted them to know that we still support you. We climb the same poles and are in the same craft, WHY DON'T WE GET PAID THE SAME? WHY AREN'T THE BENEFITS THE SAME? These are the questions that Cox techs should be asking. Also. some Cox supervisors were saying that we do not make the money an hour that we claim to make. OH YEAH? That is why we are going to put up our pay stubs on this website so we can squash that lie! Our time of service with the IBEW 2323 ranges from 12 to 14 months. In closing, I would like to thank all of the support and for all the dedication of Cox employees! You're management team might not recognize you but the IBEW does! STAY SAFE, STAY STRONG, WORK UNION!!!

YOURS IN SOLIDARITY,

DON VITO