The company has also started up ACE groups in other cities and our members’ have informed us that these groups are manipulating jeopardy codes and dealing directly with LEC’s  on access issues. Many of these functions are the duties and responsibilities of the CSDG Assembler title. Jeopardy codes are vital indicators for functions that the highly experienced CSDG Assemblers are trained to follow up on and when properly recorded help track and assess the force requirements in the workplace.
 
It is our position that managers are here to supervise and assist the occupational workforce as we maintain and provision the networks of AT&T’s customers. The ACE groups are managers that do not have occupational employees reporting to them, so what is their true function? Why are ACE groups hidden in virtual offices, performing work out of the sight of the occupational workforce? The reason they do this is obvious to all of us.
 
If you discover ACE groups or other management performing your work, contact your workplace Union Representative so it can be challenged. Let us bring the ACE group out of hiding and expose this assault on our job security.
 
In unity there is strength,
 
Roy Hegenbart
President
Local 3250