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On the eve of opening bargaining, CWA Telecommunications and Technologies Vice President Ralph Maly, his staff, and our elected bargainers held a National conference call with Local officers, stewards, mobilizers, and activists across the country.

Both teams exchanged language on several articles today, but there were no significant new demands.

The company arrived today with a big pile of demands. It turned out they were all basically the same. For Articles 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, and 41 their demand are to eliminate all double time for overtime after 8 hours and all Sunday differentials. In Article 41 the proposed also eliminating shifted tour differential.

At the bargaining table today, the Company continued its retrogressive proposals.

Our Bargaining committee made several proposals yesterday on Quota Relief, Flexible EW days, vacations and holidays that had been submitted by Legacy T members. That was followed by what turned into a 2 day presentation of the Company proposals on Benefits, Medical, Dental, Vision, Care Plus- A Supplemental Program, Consolidated Long Term Care, and Health Care Reimbursement. It was even worse than we had predicted after their presentation on March 1st. Their claims of fairness and their commitment to good, middle class jobs is as false as we expected it to be.