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The Union and Company resumed bargaining today and again the dialogue was productive.

Bargaining resumed today and, for the first time in a while, there was some meaningful dialogue.

Bargaining resumed today, and the Company continued their appalling behavior.

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The Union also made proposals for improved monitoring language for Call Center and Retail workers. Several proposals were made by the Union for title/pay upgrades to make sure that our members who are being asked to do more are compensated for it.

After concluding the short week and a half break from the table, the Union and the Company resumed talks today.

With over 22,000 workers in contract negotiations in District 9, mobilization is crucial.

On Saturday, February 11, 2017, CWA District 9 members across, California, Nevada and Hawaii rallied to support the bargaining teams for AT&T West, DIRECTV and AT&T Mobility. 

CWA District 9 members across, California, Nevada and Hawaii rallied to support the bargaining teams.

The Union and company remain miles apart on all major issues. The company continues to make greedy and retrogressive demands despite their huge profits. The Union will not accept these demands and the discussions have become more contentious over the last several days.

The Union and the Company met today and the Company opened the meeting by outright rejecting many of our proposals including Job Security and also continued to state that they have no interest in bargaining commissions for Retail Stores, Cricket Stores and Tele-sales employees.

The Union and the Company met today and the Union passed proposals on job security, vacations, absence, transfer language, exchange time, holidays, benefits and basis of compensation.

We met with the company today and signed a temporary contract extension, so all the provisions of the contract remain intact while we continue to bargain.

The company wasted no time today showing their greed and hostility at the bargaining table.

We got back the strike vote results and over 93% of AT&T Mobility workers voted yes. 

Bargaining resumed today and the Union passed proposals on absence, benefits, job security and other language to protect our members and improve your working conditions!

The Union and company resumed bargaining today with both sides having multiple clarifying questions.

The Union passed many proposals today covering some of the most important issues for our members. We passed language in regards to wages, commissions, transfers, holidays, job openings, scheduling, call out and on-call pay, overtime and differential.

The amount of monitoring our call center members are subjected to creates a high stress environment and we are working on language to improve the working conditions at the call centers.

The Company finally supplied the Union with a huge amount of data related to Call Center monitoring. While we did not meet with the Company today, the Bargaining Team spent most the day analyzing the data received and formulating our proposals.

We spent the day huddled with our legal team combing through the data we already received and planning our next moves!

We spent the day huddled with our legal team combing through the data we already received and planning our next moves!

One week into bargaining and AT&T continues to use stall tactics at the bargaining table. The Union has open information requests going back weeks and the company continues to stonewall and play dumb when it comes to information.