CWA/AT&T Bargaining Report #89

June 29, 2009

This bargaining report is for Saturday, June 27, 2009.  The CWA & AT&T Bargaining Committees met today.  Discussions centered on the Service Representative Task Force Agreement and the need to maintain the agreement in tact.  Pension Increases tied to wage increases and maintaining the GATT Rate for Lump Sum Pension options, which the Company opposes and AT&T’s demand to institute the Pension Protection Act was also discussed.  Temporary Employee conversions were reviewed again with focus on the numerous locations where only 1 temporary employee is located versus current transfers on file.  The Union went over a list of status quo items that we have indicated repeatedly to the Company, that all of these items have to be reinstated so that negotiations could move forward.  CWA also covered a number of other union proposals that are still on the table and have not been addressed by the Company.