Bargaining Update

T-Mobile MetroPCS

Members of CWA Local Local 1101 unanimously ratified a three-year contract with T-Mobile that improves job security, ensures fair treatment on wages and benefits and includes improvements in scheduling and other working conditions.

Workers at the retail store in Harlem, New York, voted for CWA representation a year ago, organizing around their goal of improving their work environment. There are 10 workers at the store.

YP Holdings Bargaining in Texas

CWA Local 6300 members defy the rain as they rallied behind the CWA YP bargaining committee meeting with management.

Despite the rain, members of CWA 6300 rallied behind the CWA YP bargaining committee meeting with management in St. Louis. Outside the bargaining session, CWAers wearing red made sure that management got the message: we want a fair contract.

The contract covers YP Holdings (formerly Yellow Pages) workers throughout D6. In August, CWA members did not ratify a tentative agreement; negotiations resumed this week.

FairPoint Communications

NY State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli wrote to the CEO of Angelo, Gordon & Co., which owns nearly 20 percent of FairPoint stock, alerting the investor to FairPoint's federal law violations in bargaining with workers represented by CWA and the IBEW.

He wrote: "We are concerned by publicly reported allegations that FairPoint has not acted in good faith and has violated federal law."

FairPoint imposed a contract on about 2,000 telecommunications workers in northern New England.