The bargainers met today and exchanged some proposals. The Company passed a response to our request to put into the contract that the company must allow people to see their personnel records within 30 days. They made a small amount of movement on the existing language.
Members of the Communications Workers of America at four AT&T units voted overwhelmingly to authorize CWA leaders to call strikes if fair contracts cannot be reached.
Unlike most workers, flight attendants are excluded from coverage of some important federal laws. Their work environment, the aircraft cabin, is exempt from federal health and safety laws and falls under Federal Aviation Administration jurisdiction.
As Locals around the country are counting their strike votes, signs that had been mailed out to all the Locals were posted on the wall facing the Company bargainers today: ?CWA on STRIKE for the American Dream at AT&T.?
The work environment for journalists and broadcast workers couldn't be more dangerous today. Whether covering demonstrations throughout the Middle East, civil war in Africa or disasters here in the U.S., these CWA members put their lives and sometimes their freedom on the line to tell the world what's happening.
