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Bargaining Update
- NABET-CWA has reached a tentative agreement with ABC-Disney on a new four-year contract to replace the Master Agreement, which expired on March 31, 2011. It's the result of a 15-hour mediation session at the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. Covering 2,500 staff and daily hire employees in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington D.C., the tentative agreement includes wage increases and improved retirement benefits. A ratification vote is being scheduled.
- CWA members at AT&T West rejected a tentative agreement, voting to support a strike if necessary. Following meetings last weekend, CWA-elected local leaders authorized Vice President Jim Weitkamp and the bargaining committee to return to negotiations beginning March 25.
- AT&T Mobility members are voting now on a tentative agreement covering 22,000 workers in 36 states and the District of Columbia. The voting period goes through next Friday, Apr. 5. More information here.
- A New York City bankruptcy court judge rejected TNG-CWA's objections to the Journal Register Co.'s sale of its assets to 21st CMH Acquisition Corp. Read more here.
- Registered nurses at Kenmore Mercy Hospital in Buffalo, NY, will meet with a federal mediator on April 9. Nurses, represented by CWA Local 1133, recently rejected a tentative contract for the second time. Read more here.