Bargaining Update

Members of CWA Local 3902 in Birmingham, Ala., tell AT&T Internet, "We won't work for peanuts."

AT&T National Internet Contract

CWA reached a tentative agreement with AT&T Internet covering 3,500 technicians and call center workers in 14 states. The bargaining team worked hard to gain a fair contract that made improvements in wage and related issues. Details of the tentative contract are being provided to locals and members; the bargaining committee unanimously recommends ratification.

US Airways

The planned ratification vote for a tentative contract covering 6,500 passenger service employees at US Airways has been put on hold, following the U.S. Department of Justice's announcement that it is seeking to block the merger of US Airways and American Airlines. Agents are represented by CWA and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The tentative agreement was an interim settlement while the merger moved forward. While US Airways maintains that the merger will be completed, the time frame will be longer and the unions concluded it would be better to evaluate all options before proceeding with the vote.

OFS

CWA's Telecommunications and Technologies bargaining team reached a second tentative agreement with OFS, covering about 280 CWA members at plants in Sturbridge, Mass., and Atlanta, Ga. OFS workers manufacture high performance fibers for video, voice and data transmission.

CenturyLink

The ratification date for the tentative CenturyLink agreement is Sept. 27, 2013. Get more information here.

This tentative agreement covers 11,000 CWA legacy Qwest/CenturyLink members in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Iowa. CenturyLink workers in Montana are represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

KQED

In a vote conducted by the NLRB, employees at KQED in San Jose, Calif., voted 3-0 for NABET-CWA representation.

In KQED's main San Francisco office, NABET-CWA Local 59051 currently represents more than 100 employees in 11 different units. San Francisco contract negotiations have been ongoing since the contract expired last October, and the union had proposed including the San Jose employees into the KQED-NABET collective bargaining agreement to prevent the company from moving production to San Jose for non-union work. The company rejected NABET-CWA's proposal and told negotiators that they knew how to organize San Jose workers if they wanted to represent them. So they did!