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CWA DISTRICT 3/ATT MOBILITY BARGAINING - REPORT #6

REPORT FOR FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Your Bargaining committee met with AT&T Company representatives this morning to continue bargaining discussions.

The Union passed a revised proposal on article 21 regarding subpoenas, a new proposal on adding the Alliance funding to the contract.

The company had many questions on these and previous proposals. They rejected our proposal on CWA Logos on stores and company uniforms. The company rejected a proposal to add IRS amounts to travel expenses and our proposal on a National Training advisory board. The company reiterated they were not interested in adding any National committees or paying for any such time or travel expense. The company then passed a revised pension proposal eliminating any pension plan or program for new hires.

We recessed to evaluate company responses and proposals.

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We reconvened late this afternoon to continue discussions.

The Union rejected company proposals on vacation and illness absence time.

We then passed a new proposal on tour bids.

The Union again requested the company agree to bargain the commission plan or at least parts of it. We also requested to eliminate the management rights clause as well as the waiver of bargaining. The company restated their position that they would consider any proposal on those issues but had no interest in bargaining any part of the plan. Nor would they be interested in changing or eliminating any language in Article 6 or 26.

The company rejected our proposal on exchange time as well as adding the Alliance language to the contract. They passed a counter proposal to the funeral language as well as a counter to all of our Article 19 proposals.

The company Tentatively Agreed (T/A) to our proposal on expedited arbitration.

We recessed for the day to continue developing proposals as well as preparing responses to the company proposals.

We are scheduled to meet again tomorrow morning.

In Unity,

CWA Mobility Bargaining team

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