Mobility Benefits Bargaining
Posted: July 1, 2008 | Author: macmanus | Filed under: Bargaining, News | Leave a comment »The bargaining over Mobility benefits ended without a meaningful agreement between the Company and the Union. The District Six website states that the Company’s counter-proposal was actually worse than their original offer. Because an agreement was not reached, the negotiations proceed to mediation, which will begin on July 14 and proceed for ten days. If the mediation does not achieve a resolution acceptable to both the Union and Company then it will proceed to binding arbitration. We will post all further developments here.
Wireless Bargaining Update
Posted: June 17, 2008 | Author: macmanus | Filed under: Bargaining, News | Leave a comment »From the District 6 Website:
The Bargaining Committee met again with the Company on Friday with demands that they provide outstanding data still owed to us. It is still apparent that we are the only ones who came to this table to look for possible solutions to what the Company says, but can’t show, are problems with the current health care plan. Instead, the Company wants us to simply put forward another proposal with “shot in the dark” ingredients of retrogression! But we are not interested in giving into the astronomically impacting demand the Company proposed on June 4!
The Company’s suggestion that, for a family, an employee who earns the average salary within Mobility today should have to pay out more than 17 percent of their annual income before the plan kicks in is insane, let alone unreasonable and immoral! We feel that the Company has wasted enough time avoiding the questions and they need to get serious if we have any chance at reaching a tentative agreement! They need to DO THE RIGHT THING!
The Bargaining Committee appreciates all of the support you have shown!!
Bargaining has been recessed and will reconvene on June 27.
First Wireless Benefits Bargaining Report
Posted: June 6, 2008 | Author: macmanus | Filed under: Bargaining, News | Leave a comment »The first report from the bargaining session for wireless benefits is posted on the District Six Website. Link
Download the New Mobility Contract
Posted: June 4, 2008 | Author: macmanus | Filed under: Bargaining, News | Leave a comment »Here is the finalized 2008 Labor Agreement between AT&T Mobility and CWA District 6. Link
CWA, AT&T Mobility to Open Health Care Talks
Posted: May 31, 2008 | Author: macmanus | Filed under: Bargaining, News | Leave a comment »From CWA Newsletter
Bargaining gets underway June 3 for the national health care plan covering more than 40,000 workers at AT&T Mobility. The settlement negotiated in 2004 expires June 30.
“CWA is determined to reach a fair agreement on health care that reflects the company’s profitability in what is the fastest-growing segment of the business,” said CWA Executive Vice President Jeff Rechenbach.
If a tentative agreement is not reached by June 30, both parties have agreed to take the dispute to mediation, then arbitration, if necessary, to resolve differences. If a tentative agreement is reached, it will be presented to the membership for ratification and take effect next year.
Members of the CWA bargaining team are Betty Witte, chair, District 3; Paul Klaebel, District 3; Holly Sorey, District 4; Jim Murray, District 6 and Joe Sison, District 9, and John Alphonse, CWA staff representative, District 1.
Mobility Pay Seniority Issues
Posted: May 7, 2008 | Author: macmanus | Filed under: Bargaining, News | Leave a comment »The local is aware that seniority issues have arisen as a result of the company’s implementation of the new pay scale increases. Our concern has been conveyed to the district whose representatives are meeting with the company. We will keep you posted here on any further developments.
Mobility Health Care Negotiations between CWA and AT&T begin June 3, 2008
Posted: April 30, 2008 | Author: macmanus | Filed under: Bargaining, News | Leave a comment »CWA’s National Health Care Agreement negotiated with AT&T Mobility will expire on June 30, 2008. This expiration does not change the Health Care Plan benefits during 2008, but it does mean that we must bargain the plan beyond 2008.
What will happen in this process is that our bargaining committee will meet with AT&T’s in an effort to reach a new tentative agreement by June 30. If an agreement is not reached, a Federal Mediator will come in and try to facilitate one. If the Mediator is unsuccessful, the final step in this process will be for the Union and the Company to present their respective proposals before an Arbitrator. The Arbitrator’s decision will be binding on both parties.
Action Item ….. Please go to the web address shown below and complete the online Health Care Survey by May 9, 2008 (not from a Company computer please!) Your participation will help guide our bargaining committee in the development of proposals and counter proposals that may be necessary during negotiations. Your answers to the survey questions will also help us to identify any problems with the current plan and what is most important to you.
http://www.cwa-union.org/survey/att-healthcare.html
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A Letter from the Bargaining Committee
Posted: April 21, 2008 | Author: macmanus | Filed under: Bargaining | Leave a comment »Today the local received the following letter from Richard Kneupper, who headed the Union Bargaining Committee in the recent contract negotiations with AT&T Mobility. The letter reads as follows:
Subject: Mobility Agreement – Dispute over Upgrades at the Top
This is to advise that the CWA Bargaining Committee and the Mobility Bargaining Committee have had a discussion about a dispute over what was negotiated for upgraded Call Center employees at the top of the wage schedule. The dispute centers around those employees at the top of the schedule who would receive a $38.50 upgrade plus receive the negotiatied wage increase. This was based on a document that was presented to the Union by the Company just prior to an agreement being reached. The document stated the following:
Upgrades: (Effective 2/24/2008, depending on ratification)
- Overall, 54% of employees covered by the contract are upgraded
- 92% of Customer Representatives, more than 5,000 employees are upgraded.
- Upgrade Customer Service Representative 1 – All Other by $38.50 per week at top pay
- Upgrade Business Customer Service Spet by $38.50 per week at top pay
The CWA Bargaining committee understood this to mean that people at the top of the wage schedule would receive the $38.50 treatment. Howerver, the Mobility Committee says their intent was that the wage schedule itself was being upgraded by $38.50 as that was the difference between the Dallas wage schedules and the All Other wage schedule. A specific example of how people would be treated at the top was not presented by the Company. The Company refuses to make this adjustment and the parties have agreed to submit the dispute to a neutral, third party and arbitrate the issue.
Currently, what this will mean is that employees at the top of the wage schedule will be slotted into the new wage schedule just as other upgraded employees who were in progression, but at a higher step. They will receive the same incremental wage increase based on where they fall on the wage schedule.
The CWA Bargaining Committee certainly understands the disruption this will create for our members and agonizes over the issue. However, after considering all of our options, we believe arbitrating the issue is our best course of action.
Richard Kneupper
Mobility Pay Issue – A letter from Jack Maxey
Posted: April 15, 2008 | Author: macmanus | Filed under: Bargaining | Leave a comment »Most of you are aware that we are in a dispute with the company on pay for the top people on the new wage progression scale in the 2008 Labor Agreement.
CWA’s position is that the agreement provided an immediate upgrade of $38.50 a week for those employees at the top of the wage scale. The $38.50 combined with the raise should have placed the top employees at $594.
The company’s position is that the upgrade was built into the wage scale and was not immediate.
In our explanation meeting we gave you the wages that were given by the District. We were as upfront and truthful as we could be. There was certainly no intent to mislead or deceive anyone.
District Six and our attorneys are looking at our options. when a decision is made we will pass that information on to the members.
We ask you to be patient as we work to resolve the issue.
Sincerely,
Jack Maxey
President
CWA6203
District Reports Wage Calculation Issues
Posted: April 7, 2008 | Author: macmanus | Filed under: Bargaining, News | Leave a comment »The local received the following letter from Richard Kneupper, Assistant to the District Vice President and head of the recent Bargaining Committee.
This is to advise we are aware there are some issues developing with new wage calculations due to the new agreement. We are looking into it and will advise as soon as we have all the details sorted out.
