CWA District 9/AT&T West
Bargaining Bulletin #21
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

1 Union 1 Fight 1 Future

Today the subcommittees met in an attempt to resolve some of our differences around Article 2 and Work Rules/Appendices. In today’s formal session the Company rejected the Union proposal for time off. Our proposal included language that a minimum of 25% of a work group could be off at any given time. The Company passed two more retrogressive proposals. The first would increase the number of unpaid days before receiving any sickness absence pay for employees with less than 8 years of service. The second one was in reference to Sunday premium pay. The company proposed to only pay time and one tenth per hour on Sunday instead of time and one half. With only 10 days left before contract expiration, we have had 21 formal bargaining sessions, many subcommittee meetings, made 31 proposals to improve the contract, received 31 regressive proposals from the company and have reached 0 tentative agreements!

IN UNITY,
Pam Suniga
Art Gonzalez
Tom Runnion
William B. Harvey
Lupe Mercado
Bill Demers

Mobilize! Mobilize! Mobilize!