Bargaining Update

CWA and IBEW Reach Tentative Agreement on Contract

CWA and the IBEW have each reached a tentative agreement with Johnson Controls Inc., covering more than 140 workers. Details will be released to the membership who will vote on ratification.

About 98 of the workers are CWA members in CWA District 4 locals, and work as facility engineers, facility mechanics and lead and senior engineers doing building maintenance at all AT&T buildings. The CBRE Group is in the process of purchasing GWS from Johnson Controls.

Standing Up to Verizon

Michael Ciancarelli, president of CWA Local 1106 told the Queens Courier, "The company basically wants to eliminate the entire contract. They want to take away things guys have had for 30 years." Read more here.

Mobilization and rallies continue!

Nearly 300 New York City activists rallied outside a Queens building owned by Verizon. Make the Road New York, Citizen Action of New York and politicians, including state Senator Toby Stavisky, state Senator Michael Gianaris and Assemblywoman Nily Rozic, joined CWA Locals 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, and 1109 last week.

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Fred Mason, Jr., president of the Maryland state and District of Columbia AFL-CIO, addressed nearly 200 CWAers at a rally in Annapolis, MD. Members from CWA Locals 2106, 2107, 2108, 2100, 2101, 2105, 2201, 2222, 2204, 2336, and 13000 were there to build support for their fair contract fight.

Members of CWA Local 2204 also held an informational picket at the Luck Avenue work site in Roanoke, Va. Verizon retirees and members of Steelworkers Local 1023 showed their solidarity and joined the action.

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In Philadelphia, members of Local 13500 call out 'Verigreedy' for its attacks on good jobs and benefits.

AT&T Southeast Workers Hold their Ground

Workers are standing up for what's right: Families, equal treatment, fairness, healthcare and respect.

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CWA Local 3805 activists picketed for a fair contract at their work site along 9733 Parkside Drive in Knoxville, Tenn. Workers told AT&T that they will not accept higher health care costs, unsafe working conditions and other concessions the corporation has been demanding at the bargaining table.

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CWA Local 3310 activists picketed near their work site, the main yard for construction and engineering techs at Bardstown Road in Louisville, Ky. Among the critical issues in negotiations is work schedules for wire technicians, which currently require them to work extremely late, long and excessive hours.

TV Location Department Workers Show their Union Colors

Location department employees working in film and episodic television gathered outside Stage 3 at Steiner Studios in Brooklyn. Just last month, these workers, who are integral to all New York City shoots, joined CWA Local 1101. Now they're wearing CWA lanyards on set and red on Thursdays to show their unity.