Bargaining Update

DIRECTV

CWA reached a tentative first contract with AT&T covering 500 DIRECTV Technical Service Center workers. If the agreement is ratified, these 500 technical support workers in Alabama, California, Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, and Tennessee will join 1,500 CWA-represented colleagues already covered by the AT&T National Internet Contract.

CWA District 7 Vice President Brenda Roberts said the members' mobilization and solidarity from thousands of other DIRECTV workers who also have a CWA voice and representation made a big difference in the negotiations. 

The ratification votes will be taking place over the next two weeks. Read more here.

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Telecommunications & Technologies

Telecommuncations and Technologies President Lisa Bolton opened the 2017 T&T Leadership Conference meeting. CWA President Chris Shelton and Rev. William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP, were among the speakers. Left is Luis Benítez-Burgo, president, Local 3010.

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AT&T West

At the District 9 meeting in Las Vegas, CWAers showed their solidarity with AT&T West and AT&T Mobility members facing tough bargaining with an action at an AT&T Mobility store. Above, D9 Vice President Tom Runnion, right, with CWA Secretary-Treasurer Sara Steffens and Chief of Staff Ron Collins.

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AT&T Mobility

CWAers at AT&T Mobility are stepping up the mobilization while bargaining continues. Rallies and actions were held across CWA districts last week on Jan. 25, the opening day of negotiations. Get the latest here.

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DISH

In a big victory for workers, an NLRB administrative law judge has ordered DISH to rehire the workers it illegally fired in 2014, bargain with CWA for a first contract, and restore cuts made to health care and vacation benefits that the company unlawfully changed.

In 2011, technicians and warehouse employees at DISH facilities in Farmers Branch and North Richland Hills, Texas, voted to join CWA Local 6171. DISH management refused to bargain fairly and declared an impasse in 2016, making changes to workers’ health insurance and vacation benefits and firing 17 workers.

Read the judge's ruling here.