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District 9 Members Ratify AT&T West Contract

September 2, 2009

District 9 members have ratified the AT&T West agreement, covering about 22,000 workers, by a 3-to-1 margin. Read the final bargaining report.

Negotiations are continuing for 65,000 CWA workers at AT&T East (District 1), Southeast (District 3), and Southwest (District 6).  

“This agreement achieves members’ key goals: it maintains our members’ standard of living, safeguards quality health care for workers and retirees, and enhances employment security,” said CWA District 9 Vice President Jim Weitkamp. “Considering we are in the worst recession in history, this agreement reflects real gains and positive accomplishments for workers,” he said.

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CWA / AT&T "Legacy T" Tentative Agreement

August 28, 2009

Click here to review the tenative agreement outlining the changes in the 2009 Agreement between "Legacy T" and AT&T.

In these extremely difficult economic times, with the unemployment rate continuing to skyrocket, this team made protecting our members' jobs its number one mission.  Although we did not accomplish everything we would have liked in this bargaining and continue to be angry about the Health Care cost-shifting this Company imposed on us, we feel that we were able to meet our main goal.  On that basis, and in light of the many other improvements we were able to make in this contract, the bargaining team unanimously supports this agreement and recommends its ratification by the membership.

A full explanation will be presented to the Presidents next Wednesday, September 2, in Baltimore, after which the ratification process will begin.

It was only due to the support, hard work, and mobilization of the Locals and the membership that we were able to achieve what we did.

The Legacy T Bargaining Team