CWA Reaches Tentative Agreements With AT&T Southeast, Others
Communications Workers of America bargaining teams reached tentative agreements with AT&T Southeast, AT&T Utility Operations and BellSouth Billing on contracts for a total of 28,000 workers, said a CWA announcement Tuesday. At our deadline Tuesday, details were being given to…
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CWA members for ratification votes, it said. The new contracts will "provide an improvement in wages, pension safeguards, improvements in job security, a better work/home life balance, and many other gains resulting in real economic improvement for workers," the union said. Negotiations with AT&T Southeast have been ongoing since before the contracts expired Aug. 8, CWA said. Mark Royse, executive vice president-labor relations for AT&T, said its goal during the negotiations was to work with the union to bargain a "fair and balanced" contract that allows the company to continue to provide "excellent union-represented careers with wages and benefits that are among the best in the country, while controlling costs and maintaining the flexibility the company needs to operate in an extremely competitive industry." He said the agreement achieves that goal.