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Alaska Communications Systems Group Inc – ‘8-K’ for 2/27/18

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 3/06/18  Alaska Comms Systems Group Inc    8-K:1,9     2/27/18    2:2.9M                                   RDG Filings/FA

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 UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): February 27, 2018

 

 

ALASKA COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS GROUP, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware 000-28167 52-2126573

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

(Commission

File Number)

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

 

 

600 Telephone Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska 99503-6091
(Address of principal executive offices)

(Zip Code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code 907 - 297 – 3000

 

 


(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

[ ] Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

[ ] Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

[ ] Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

[ ] Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

 

Emerging growth company [ ]

 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. [ ]

 

 

 

 

Item 1.01     Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

 

Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc. (the “Company”), through its subsidiary Alaska Communications Systems Holding, Inc., has entered into a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (the “CBA” or “Agreement”) with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local Union 1547 (“IBEW”), which represents all of the Company’s unionized employees. The CBA was ratified by a vote of the Company’s represented employees on December 8, 2017, approved by the Company’s Board of Directors on December 11, 2017, and executed by all parties to the Agreement on February 27, 2018.

 

The CBA is effective January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2023 and, in addition to certain procedural and administrative matters, provides for:

 

 

a.

Base wage increases of zero in 2017; 1.0% in 2018 and 2019; and 1.5% in 2020 through 2023.

 

 

b.

Annual target incentive compensation payments of zero in 2017 through 2019, and 3.0% of base wage in 2020 through 2023.

 

 

c.

Up to 160 hours of unpaid furloughs in 2018.

 

 

d.

Certain involuntary employee separations in 2017.

 

 

e.

Increase in the Company’s share of health insurance premiums in 2018, with 5% annual increases in the Company’s share of such premiums in 2019 through 2023.

 

 

f.

Effective October 2021, all represented employees will have been migrated to a single wage and pension contribution schedule.

 

The foregoing description of the CBA is a select summary only and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full Agreement which is filed as an exhibit to this report and incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 9.01     Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

Exhibit No.

Description

 

10.1

Collective Bargaining Agreement, effective January 1, 2018, between Alaska Communications Systems Holdings, Inc. and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local Union No. 1547.

 

 

 

 

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

Date:     March 5, 2018

Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Leonard A. Steinberg

 

 

 

Leonard A. Steinberg

 

 

 

Corporate Secretary

 

 

                  

 

Exhibit Index

Exhibit No. 

Description 

10.1

Collective Bargaining Agreement, effective January 1, 2018, between Alaska Communications Systems Holdings, Inc. and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local Union No. 1547.

 


Dates Referenced Herein   and   Documents Incorporated by Reference

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Filed as of:3/6/184
Filed on:3/5/184
For Period End:2/27/18
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2 Subsequent Filings that Reference this Filing

  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size             Issuer                      Filing Agent

 4/30/21  Alaska Comms Systems Group Inc.   10-K/A     12/31/20   13:1M                                     RDG Filings/FA
 3/16/21  Alaska Comms Systems Group Inc.   10-K       12/31/20  135:11M                                    RDG Filings/FA
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