AT&T Southeast Bargaining Report #55

Today the CWA Bargaining Teams met with the Company and dealt with a number of items through package proposals. Existing proposals that CWA has on the table concerning work rules include improving the Forced Overtime Cap, Service Observing improvements, increasing Partnership Funding, increasing SIPP pay, implementing Exchange Time, changing Vacation Carryover language, Memorandum Of Agreement cleanup and Core-to-Wire Tech language changes. The benefits package that the Company presented today was undesirable, to say the least. They are still unwilling to break away from the national cost model (that we have been able to prove results in our members being overcharged for healthcare) and are still insisting that the national model works best for them. On a brighter note, we are seeing more pictures of members being unified, keeping one another encouraged and staying mobilized. Let’s keep lifting each other up as we continue into uncharted territory. Lean on one another through these trying times and take pride in doing what we must do to ensure better things not only for ourselves, but for future members to come.