AT&T SW Bargaining Report #15

February 21, 2017

Your CWA Bargaining Committee met with the Company on Monday, February 20, 2017, to present bargaining demands.  The Union Committee presented the following demands:

• A significant wage increase
• The return of contracted work back to the Bargaining Unit
• Improvements to the National Transfer Plan
• Improvement of the Savings and Security Plan
• To extend Medicare Part B Reimbursement
• Improvements to the Pension Plans
• Improvements to the Retiree’s Pension and other Retirement Benefits
• To Extend the two Union Benefit Representative Positions
• Modifications to the Employment Security Commitment
• Appendix J Premises Technicians shall be placed into Appendix C Wage Schedules
• Premises Technicians – Hours worked on a Holiday shall count towards hours worked
• The inclusion of Premises Technicians into the GPS Monitoring Agreement
• The improvement of the Layoff Allowance for Premises Technicians

The Union Bargaining Committee rejected the Company’s proposal on Article XIX-Grievances.  Your CWA Committee also presented five new data requests to the Company.  We will send out another Bargaining Report as events change.

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