CWA District 9/AT&T West Bargaining Bulletin #49 Wednesday April 29, 2009

Today we met in formal session and in subcommittee. In formal session the company provided us with additional requested information on health care. In the moa subcommittee we continued extensive discussion surrounding monitoring.

We also had a conference call on healthcare where both sides of the table had discussions around the different plans and again CWA offered options that would save the company money without imposing the burden of cost shifting on our members. While the company had representation on the call from Dallas, who was supposed to provide accurate data and information, CWA had representatives from the CWA research department in D.C. that had more challenging questions and requested more pertinent information. It was agreed that more information would be provided and another call would be scheduled.

Stay the course! Your strike standby efforts are having an effect. The key to any concerted activity is organizational discipline. Thanks for all you do!

 IN UNITY,

William B. Harvey

Lupe Mercado

Bill Demers

Pam Suniga

Art Gonzalez

Tom Runnion

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