Bargaining Update

Members of CWA Local 6143 in San Antonio hit the streets for informational picketing to protest AT&T Internet Services' continuing demand for givebacks. Workers are standing strong for dignity and respect.

AT&T National Internet Contract

The strike authorization process is underway at AT&T Internet, with CWA members determined to fight back against AT&T's corporate greed and to stand strong for a fair contract. There are about 2,000 workers covered by the NIC. The contract, which expired on July 23, has been extended while mobilization heats up.

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AT&T West

More than 100 CWAers gathered at AT&T Park in San Francisco during a big two-day Tech Expo sponsored by the company. CWA locals were there to show solidarity and support for bargaining, and to spotlight public attention on AT&T’s refusal to negotiate a fair contract for the workers who have made the company so successful.

Negotiations covering 15,000 AT&T CWA members in California and Nevada are continuing.

CWA members from California locals were a big part of the action at AT&T's Tech Expo, held at AT&T Park in San Francisco.

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Digital First Media

In nationally coordinated bargaining, NewsGuild leaders at 12 newspaper bargaining units reached a tentative agreement with Digital First Media covering 870 workers.

The tentative agreement will be presented to members with separate ratification votes held in each of these bargaining units: The Denver Post, The Mercury News, East Bay Times, Monterey Herald, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Macomb Daily and The Daily Tribune, Kingston Daily Freeman, Pottstown Mercury, Norristown Times-Herald, The Delaware County Times, and The Trentonian.

The tentative three-year contract provides for a 3 percent pay increase for all bargaining unit members in the first year of the agreement, among other gains.

DFM owner Alden Global Capital, a hedge fund group, has been squeezing revenues at the newspapers and pushing for job cuts. Earlier this year, TNG-CWA activists launched a national campaign to demand investor transparency by Alden, known as a vulture fund, for its action that were affecting local and community coverage and newsroom and editorial diversity.

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