AT&T Southeast Bargaining Report #53

The dynamics of contract negotiations lead to strategy modifications as talks progress. Although we want to disclose as much information as possible, due to the fact we are currently bargaining with a mediator’s involvement, many conversations are being held off the record. This limits the amount of information that we can distribute in bargaining reports. CWA leadership has informed the company that we will be conducting bargaining meetings at a neutral site going forward. We can say for certain that the company has yet to resolve the issues that required us to file the ULP charges and that they are feeling the pressure from our members staying strong on the picket lines. We have heard reports of managers scrambling to pick up jobs, performing work at less than satisfactory safety levels and working a lot of mandatory overtime, causing them to be away from their families. Hopefully, when the dust settles, they will have a new respect for our members who live and breathe this work daily to generate the earnings the Company so often brags about. Stay strong fellow Union family, stay as one, we need to rally now more than ever.