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CWA officials expressed serious concerns about AT&T’s plans to split the company into four separate operations — broadband, wireless, business and consumer services — and stressed that the company has operational problems which cannot be fixed by financial restructuring.

With the presidential election in double overtime and some U.S. House and Senate races still too close to call on Nov. 8, at least one thing was clear the day after Election 2000: Labor’s impassioned fight for working families and workers’ rights had a thunderous impact.

CWA has reached a tentative agreement with Qwest Communications and Qwest Business Resources Inc., that will extend the current contract covering 35,000 CWA members and provide wage and benefit improvements. The company was formed by the merger of US West and Qwest which was finalized in June.

Participants at the SBC National Bargaining Conference on Nov. 8-9 adopted a bargaining resolution spelling out key goals. A summary follows:

SBC Communications is very successful — the nation’s second most profitable communications company.

In preparation for early bargaining with SBC Communications, CWA local union officers and committee members from four districts discussed bargaining goals and strategies at the national SBC bargaining conference in San Diego Nov. 9-10.