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AT&T Mobility Orange Contract 2017 Bargaining: Report #1

The CWA Bargaining Committee met with AT&T on Wednesday, January 25, 2017 to kick-off bargaining for a successor “Orange” Regional Agreement covering over 20,000 employees in CWA Districts 1, 2-13, 4, 7, and 9.

AT&T Mobility Orange Contract 2017 Bargaining: Report #1

CWA/Frontier Bargaining Report #2

The first session of bargaining ended yesterday, January 17.

Lengthy discussions were held on the Company's retrogressive proposals on eliminating Sunday Premium, and revamping Compensated Availability.

CWA/Frontier Bargaining Report #2

CWA/Frontier Bargaining Report # 1

Bargaining started January 12.  The Company passed 13 retrogressive proposals dealing with everything from Benefits to Disability.

CWA/Frontier Bargaining Report # 1

THIS WEEK IN LABOR HISTORY - December 5

Unionists John T. and James B. McNamara are sentenced to 15 years and life, respectively, after confessing to dynamiting the Los Angeles Times building during a drive to unionize the metal trades in the city.  They placed the bomb in an alley next to the building, set to detonate when they thought the building would be empty; it went off early, and an unanticipated gas explosion and fire did the real damage, killing twenty people. The newspaper was strongly conservative and anti-union - 1911

THIS WEEK IN LABOR HISTORY - December 5

CWA on News that TPP is Dead for this Congress: "Welcome, Overdue, and a Lesson for the Future"

For more than five years, CWA members, allies, and working families throughout the country mobilized to expose this corporate-friendly trade deal and the serious consequences for working families and communities if it did take effect. CWA members and allies long have been ahead of Washington on the issue of TPP and trade policy, and this work built a strong public base of voters who rejected what they clearly recognized as bad deal, no matter their political party.

CWA on News that TPP is Dead for this Congress: "Welcome, Overdue, and a Lesson for the Future"

YP Contract Ratification

By a clear majority of those who voted, the tentative agreement with YP Holdings was ratified today.

YP Contract Ratification