AT&T, CWA Mull 'Next Steps' After Contract Talks Fail
AT&T is “reviewing next steps” after failing to reach a new healthcare contract with union workers represented by the Communications Workers of America, a company spokesman said Friday. “Employees continue to be covered under the terms of the current benefits…
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contract, which does not expire until Dec. 31 and includes a no-strike provision.” CWA is “talking with AT&T about next steps and about moving forward to reach a new tentative agreement,” a union spokeswoman said. The failed four-year contract would have covered healthcare and other benefits for more than 40,000 AT&T Mobility employees with the union, AT&T said in a Wednesday news release. Wages, pension and work rules are negotiated under separate contracts. At least 36,000 CWA and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers members struck Verizon's landline operations earlier this year (see 1605270050).