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Bargaining Update, May 2, 2013
- CWA members at AT&T West ratified a new contract by a 2-1 margin. The contract covers about 18,000 workers in California and Nevada.
- Registered nurses at Kenmore Mercy Hospital in New York have approved a new four-year contract. CWA Local 1133, which represents about 280 nurses, has been negotiating since last November. Read more here.
- A strike at US Airways Express carrier Piedmont Airlines draws closer as management continues to present unreasonable proposals in bargaining. Piedmont Flight Attendants have been in mediation with management since August 2011 and have asked the National Mediation Board to release the parties into a 30-day "cooling-off" period. The release could come at any time.
- About 60 Guild members at Consumer Reports marched to the company's cafeteria in Yonkers, NY, to protest the company's new policy requiring them to use vacation or personal time for a number of medical procedures that formerly were covered by their sick leave policy. Read more here.
- Court interpreters, represented by the California Federation of Interpreters, have voted "yes" to authorizing the bargaining committee's call for a strike. They have been bargaining since July. Read more here.
- CWA members picketed New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's scheme to change Civil Service, eroding protections for workers by eliminating the current system of merit-based promotions. This plan essentially abolishes objective and transparent measures for promotions and replaces them with politically-motivated "advancement." Read more here.