What’s Happening Where You Are?
You may see only a dozen of your Mobility co-workers each day at your store, or a few hundred at your center, or even none if you’re home garaged.
You may see only a dozen of your Mobility co-workers each day at your store, or a few hundred at your center, or even none if you’re home garaged.
Q: Why don’t the bargaining updates give Mobility workers more detail about what the Union and the Company are discussing? After all, the Company published its entire offer.
Two and a half weeks after the contract expiration date of February 7, 2009, bargaining resumed today in an attempt to reach a long overdue settlement agreement.
Bargaining Bulletin #3
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Your Bargaining Committee met today in formal session. The Union responded with substantiation and answers to a series of clarifying questions presented by the Company on our Proposal Overview. We also discussed the process for determining which issues the parties will work on in subcommittees. We are set to meet again at 10:00 am tomorrow. We again thank all of you for your mobilization activities.
YOU ARE THE POWER BEHIND BARGAINING!
IN UNITY,
Pam Suniga
Art Gonzalez
Tom Runnion
William B. Harvey
Lupe Mercado
Bill Demers
Bargaining resumed today with the Company in what is being categorized as a day of utter disgust.
The CWA bargaining team for the Orange contract resumed their work today in Washington, D.C., in preparation for resuming contract negotiations tomorrow with company representatives.
Good news! Contract negotiations with Mobility will resume later this week.
AT&T’s executives have asked us to consider the economic realities when evaluating their proposed agreement. Let’s take a look at the economic realities of the executives’ just-released 2008 compensation: AT&T’s top 5 executives were rewarded a total of $33.5 million dollars last year.
Your Bargaining Committee and the Company met today in formal session. The Union presented an overview of proposals that included wages, pensions, job security, benefits and working conditions. The Company shared a sales/marketing type of presentation regarding consumer driven health care, showing our benefit costs compared to non-union and other large companies. The Company’s stated objective to “reduce costs” and to change behavior by moving toward a “balanced” plan. “Balanced” meaning if the employee “consumer” had to pay more for services they may not utilize them; presumably because it was a wiser “consumer” choice. We believe that any time and especially in these economic times, the “consumer” will be forced to forego needed health services to make ends meet. One good feature of the company’s presentation is that preventative care would be paid at 100%.
Mobilize, Mobilize, Mobilize
IN UNITY,
Art Gonzalez
Tom Runnion
William B. Harvey
Lupe Mercado
Bill Demers
Pam Suniga
CWA members at AT&T core want to make sure Mobility members know that they’ve got their support. Read their messages on the Wall of Solidarity.