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The Bargaining Team met with the Company in subcommittee and among themselves to work on Union proposals. There is nothing new to report.

Today the Union firmly rejected the Company proposal to freeze all of our pensions and give new hires 401K plans only - no defined pension plan at all.

Despite all of the lip service the Company has given us about the importance of training and the need to get everyone ready for the technological changes required for 2020, the Company?s proposal for Alliance funding today points in the opposite direction. Their proposal would cut the funding by over 50%.

Today, the Union proposed increasing the bi-lingual differential. This affects several articles and is important to people in some of our call centers that must work in two languages.

Under the terms of the 2014 Alcatel-Lucent Contract-25, the Alcatel-Lucent Performance Plan award for 2014 will be $540.