Bargaining Update

As bargaining for a new contract for Alcatel-Lucent installers gets underway next week in Washington, D.C., CWAers will rally outside the Alcatel-Lucent Test Center in Dublin, Ohio, one of the biggest installer locations in the company.

CWA Alcatel-Lucent installers are "fighting for our place in the future" and want to keep these highly skilled jobs from being contracted out.

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Members of NABET-CWA Local 52031 who work at the House of Representatives Recording Studio ratified a four- year contract after more than a year of tough bargaining. The contract calls for workers to be paid back pay for the overtime earnings that the House had unilaterally and wrongly withheld to April 1, 2013.

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The contract covering 1,600 workers at Frontier Communications in West Virginia has been extended through May 31.

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Iowa's Woodbury County sheriff's master deputies and sergeants will get a 2 percent pay increase under a contract approved Tuesday. CWA Local 7177 represents 31 workers. Read more here.