AT&T Southeast Bargaining Report #54

AT&T Southeast Bargaining Report #54

Today, we reverted to negotiations on the record with the original Company bargaining team. The mediator is still involved and is still acting as a facilitator, with no authority to require either party to agree or disagree to any proposals. The Company provided a package that would require our core employees to take a drastic cut in paid illness days, make changes to Article 14 that would allow employees from other CWA Districts to be loaned to D3 indefinitely and admittedly made “incremental changes” for Wire Technicians. One of those incremental changes proposed increasing meal reimbursements from $37 to $40. Negotiations continue over their substandard wage and benefits proposals. We are appreciative of all the pictures, the support and unity that we are seeing across the District. Let’s stay in unison as a team and keep the momentum going. Lean on one another and encourage one another in these times. Let’s all be stronger than ever and show the Company that we are here to handle our business!