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It is remarkable that with only three full days of bargaining left before expiration, the Company arrived at the table with ONE proposal.

Your CWA bargaining team waited all day to meet with the Company, expecting a proposal on Health Care and Benefits in response to yesterday?s Union proposal. The Company pushed a 1:00 o?clock meeting to 2:00 o?clock. 2:00 o?clock was changed to 3:30. 3:30 was postponed to 4:30.

The Union and Company Bargaining Teams met today. The Company had NO NEW PROPOSALS. They were unhappy with the Health Care Benefits proposal the Union presented.

THE STRIKE VOTE HAS BEEN COUNTED. AN AVERAGE OF 93.5% ACROSS ALL FOUR CONTRACTS VOTED IN FAVOR OF GIVING THE CWA EXECUTIVE BOARD AUTHORIZATION TO CALL A STRIKE AGAINST AT&T.

The bargainers met today and exchanged some proposals. The Company passed a response to our request to put into the contract that the company must allow people to see their personnel records within 30 days. They made a small amount of movement on the existing language.