CWA Legacy Unit Reaches Tentative Agreement with AT&T
WASHINGTON-(Business Wire)-August 28, 2009 - CWA’s Communications and Technologies bargaining team has reached a tentative agreement with AT&T covering about 8,000 CWA-represented workers nationwide.
“This agreement achieves our members’ key goal which was to improve employment security and safeguard jobs. It maintains workers’ standard of living and safeguards quality health care. In these extremely difficult economic times, these are tremendous achievements,” said CWA Communications and Technologies Vice President Ralph Maly.
The CWA bargaining team unanimously supports the agreement and is recommending ratification by the membership. A contract explanation meeting will be held for local presidents on Sept. 2, starting the ratification process.
The settlement increases pay by about 9 percent over the contract term, including cost of living adjustments, and provides pension band increases of 2 percent in each year of the agreement.
On employment security, the settlement sets a “watermark” for job retention and provides new layoff protections for workers.
The health care plan provides for fully funded preventive care and new company-funded health reimbursement accounts that can be used toward any eligible health care expense; both serve to offset some cost changes in the plan, along with wage increases and other improvements.
More details are available at www.cwa-comtech.org.
Bargaining is continuing for about 65,000 CWA-represented members at AT&T. These negotiations include AT&T East (CWA Local 1298), Southeast (District 3) and Southwest (District 6). CWA members at AT&T Midwest, CWA District 4, overwhelmingly ratified a new three-year agreement on Aug. 7 and CWA members at AT&T West, CWA District 9, are voting now on a tentative agreement with the results due Sept. 1.
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