Bargaining Update

Piedmont

In bargaining last week in Harrisburg, Pa., the CWA bargaining team, representing 4,000 passenger service agents at Piedmont Airlines, reported good progress in several areas, including safety and health, overtime, training, and other areas.

Later in the week, CWAers joined a telephone town hall where the bargaining team answered questions and members signed up for mobilization actions.

The next round of bargaining is May 17-18.

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AT&T West

As negotiations with AT&T West resumed this week, CWAers held a Day of Action, mobilizing at more than 22 AT&T wireless stores and calling on the company to get serious at the bargaining table. Hundreds of AT&T workers from Mobility, DIRECTV, and Core joined the actions.

In Sacramento, CWA legislative and political activists met with state legislators and staff, pressing them to sign on to a letter criticizing AT&T for its focus on wealthier communities when it comes to its fiber buildout. A new report by the University of California Berkeley's Haas Institute found that across 71 percent of California, lower-income neighborhoods had to make do with slower and less advanced technologies while AT&T targeted fiber deployment to wealthier areas.

CWAers mobilized at more than 22 AT&T wireless stores and called on the company to get serious at the bargaining table. Clockwise, from left: CWA Local 9400, Local 9410, Local 9404, Local 9510, Local 9404, Local 9412. The bottom photo is CWA Local 9421.

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AT&T Mobility

AT&T wireless workers from Districts 1, 2-13, 4, and 7 are gearing up to join with CWA AT&T workers from District 6, District 9, and CWA's Telecommunications and Technologies sector at the company's annual meeting in Dallas, set for Friday, Apr. 28.

Wireless, wireline, and DIRECTV workers plan to leaflet and rally outside the meeting, and then go inside to support measures to improve AT&T's corporate governance.

Standing together for a fair contract at AT&T Mobility from the top left, clockwise, are members of CWA Locals 1101, 37083, 1298, and 4900.

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New Flyer

CWAers joined allies in the Jobs to Move America Coalition at a rally outside the Los Angeles Transportation Authority, spotlighting concerns about New Flyer, the nation's largest bus manufacturer.

Jobs to Move America, whose members include CWA District 9, Food and Water Watch, Environment California, Sierra Club, IBEW Local 11, Steelworkers Local 675, and others, is calling on New Flyer to step up and address serious safety and health issues and to agree to management neutrality where workers are looking to form a union.

The 570 members of CWA Local 7304 in St. Cloud, Minn., are continuing to mobilize for a fair contract.