welcome mastech employees!
CWA Local 1109 Brothers and Sisters,
Please join me in welcoming the newest members of CWA Local 1109 — the Mastech employees in Suffolk County — who today showed the courage to fight for a better workplace and a stronger future for themselves and their families.
For the last several months our team — Organizer Ena Pearce, Executive Board member Steve Moser, and Business Agent Mike Sabatino — spent countless hours meeting, calling, guiding, and preparing this group through the organizing and election process. They helped these workers overcome the company’s efforts to derail the campaign and the message that the company could decide what’s best for their families. Those workers stood up, followed the advice and guidance of the campaign leaders, and did everything right.
The results are clear: Mastech (Suffolk) employees overwhelmingly voted yes to form their union today. This is not only a victory at Mastech but a win for all telecom workers throughout our footprint. We rise and fall together as one — our solidarity is our strength. The worker united can never be defeated.
Local 1109 is committed to organizing workers from every sector, giving them the voice they need and the respect they deserve as the working men and women of this country. I am deeply grateful for the sacrifice and dedication of everyone who helped achieve this victory — the 1109 staff, our committee members, and the brave workers at Mastech who did so much to make this possible. This was a team effort.
1109 continues to be a leader and an aggressive organization building our union. This is our second union election victory in the past several months, and our focus remains the same: continue aggressive organizing, follow every lead, build our political power, and provide the best representation possible for all members.
I am very proud of where we are and excited for where we are going as a local. Get involved — our strength comes from active members.
In solidarity,
Joseph A. Iorio, Jr.
President, CWA Local 1109