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Bargaining Update
University of California workers (above), members of UPTE/CWA Local 9119, AFSCME and California Nurses Association, demonstrate across the state for fair contracts.
AT&T Internet Services members mobilize for a new contract. Above, members of Local 4900 are standing strong. Below, members of Local 9413 joined in Health Care Action Day to send management a message: shifting health care costs to workers is a sick idea!
- The contract covering staff research associates and technicians at the University of California system, members of UPTE CWA Local 9119, expired on June 30. All contract terms and conditions of employment remain in effect during this "status quo" period. In demonstrations across the state on July 1, UPTE members and other union activists, part of the 44,000 member strong Union Coalition, protested the university's plans to impose a two-tier retirement system (both pension and retiree health care) for workers who don't have union representation and its offer of a zero percent wage increase for research associates and techs.
- On July 2, CWA members at AT&T Internet joined in Health Care Action Day to protest the company's shifting of health care costs to workers. Members in many offices wore band-aids, bandages, crutches and other first-aid items to show AT&T Internet that shifting health care costs is a sick idea. The national Internet contract covering 3,000 technicians and call center workers in 14 states expires on July 13.
- Bargaining is continuing for a new contract covering 1,600 CWAers at Frontier Communications in West Virginia. CWA Frontier members will hold a telephone town hall call next week, and union members and supporters will rally on July 27 at Frontier headquarters in Charleston, WVa., part of the fair contract fight.