QualTek Technicians Get Settlement Package After Joining Union
The Tower Climbers Union/Communications Workers of America reached agreement with QualTek Wireless in Henderson, Nevada, where QualTek will provide a severance package and make it easier to organize as the company emerges from bankruptcy. “In May 2022, the workers became…
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the first group of tower technicians in the United States to win formal union representation,” CWA said Thursday: “When QualTek filed for bankruptcy a year later and laid off the workers, the company was required under U.S. labor law to bargain with the union over the impact of the layoffs. The settlement is a result of that bargaining.” Had the union not existed, “QualTek could have just handed us our pink slips and waved goodbye,” said Derek Combs, a former QualTek tower technician.