The CWA bargaining teams have\nreached tentative agreements with AT&T’s Midwest and AT&T Legacy T\nunits, including AT&T Legacy T in Puerto Rico, and AT&T Mobility in\nPuerto Rico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The agreements come after a\nlong campaign to raise public awareness of CWA members’ concerns, particularly\naround job security. Most recently, CWA issued a series of reports highlighting\nservice quality issues in the Midwest and, last week, members of Congress, led\nby Rep. Darren Soto (D-Fla.), wrote a letter expressing concern that AT&T\ncontinue to provide good jobs in Puerto Rico as the island continues to recover\nfrom Hurricane Maria. The new Midwest agreement provides for additional call\ncenter jobs and contains a commitment to discuss contracted out work and the\nPuerto Rico agreement contains a guarantee that customer calls will continue to\nbe handled on the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Details of the proposed\ncontracts are being provided to the locals’ leadership, and contract\nexplanation meetings are being scheduled prior to the ratification vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Join a CWA Town Hall Call Next Week on How to End Offshoring <\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Big corporations are sending\nmore and more of our jobs overseas to boost their profits at the expense of\nworking people, but we’re fighting back!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
CWAers all across the country\nare speaking up and taking action to stop corporations from offshoring more\njobs. Last week, CWA members held a Day of Action, placing more than 1,500\ncalls to their members of Congress asking them to support legislation to help\nstop offshoring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Join CWA activists, President Chris Shelton, and U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) for a CWA town hall call on July 9th at 7:30 pm ET\/4:30 pm PT to talk about our Summer of #NoMoreOffshoring campaign and what CWA is doing to fight back against the offshoring of U.S. jobs. Sign up for the call by visiting CWA-Union.org\/NoMoreOffshoringCall<\/a>. Or just text CWA CALL to 69866. <\/p>\n\n\n\n More than 30 years ago, seven\nwomen journalists, with the help of what is now the News Media\nGuild\/NewsGuild-CWA Local 31222, filed a lawsuit against the Associated Press<\/em>,\nwinning a $2 million settlement that provided for back pay, training, promotion\ngoals, and bonuses for AP’s female and black journalists. When the women sued,\nthe average annual salary for male reporters was about $20,000 compared to\nabout $16,000 for women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The NewsGuild-CWA interviewed\nthe women as part of its ongoing equal pay project, which includes analyses of\npay at publications including The\nPhiladelphia Inquirer<\/em> and The\nWashington Post<\/em>. Martha Waggoner, the international chairperson of\nThe NewsGuild-CWA and a 35-year employee of the Associated Press<\/em>, wrote about the lawsuit for Poynter<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “I’d love to say that\neverything’s fine now,” Virginia Sherlock, one of the plaintiffs who filed\nthe lawsuit said. “But it’s not. Women and minorities are still not at the\nsame pay level. I can say with some measure of satisfaction that huge steps\nhave been taken…But c’mon, what is it, 40 years? We can do better.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last week, 24 CWA members\nfrom eight states across District 3 spent two days learning and practicing\npolitical action and organizing skills. CWA Local 3808 in Nashville, Tenn.,\nhosted a CWA Next Generation Activist Training, which was jointly sponsored by\nCWA Next Gen and D3. The training focused on helping participants build\npractical organizing skills and giving them opportunities to roleplay\none-on-one conversations with fellow members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When asked why the Next Gen\nprogram is so important to our union, participant Eli Stanfield said, “The\nunion is intergenerational, from workers in their first jobs to elders with\ndecades of organizing experience. Next Gen provides an opportunity to pass on\nthat wisdom to the next generation of union leaders.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n When asked why he is active\nin the union, participant Dan Warren-Castillo said, “I’m active because I\nfeel like my future is tied up with the future of the labor movement. My\ndignity and well-being as a worker depends on the victories of the working\nclass as a whole.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n CWA members participated in a New Mexico Public Regulation Commission hearing on rulemaking regarding CenturyLink service quality. Joe Gosiger, a CWA staff rep, testified about how the company’s lack of investment, understaffing, and unreasonable metrics have contributed to CenturyLink’s failure to maintain its copper infrastructure and how it is jeopardizing service quality and posing significant safety hazards to utility employees and the public. Last week, 15 CWAers from 11 different locals across CWA District 7 participated in a CWA STRONG internal organizing training in Denver, Colo. CWA Local 7050 helped lead a discussion on building a culture of organizing and mobilizing in our locals and the led the participants in a mock new employee orientation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Frontier Airlines AFA-CWA Human Rights Committee held their first activity as a committee, participating in the Pride Parade in Denver. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bargaining and Mobilization Update AT&T Midwest, AT&T Legacy T, and AT&T Mobility Puerto Rico The CWA bargaining teams have reached tentative agreements with AT&T’s Midwest and AT&T Legacy T units, including AT&T Legacy T in Puerto Rico, and AT&T Mobility … Continue reading
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\n\n\n\nCWA Next Generation Members in\nDistrict 3 Building Organizing Skills <\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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CWA members are urging the Commission to adopt strong quality of service and consumer protection rules to protect New Mexico customers’ access to basic telecommunications services. CWA Locals 7001, 7011, 7037, and 7009 collectively represent approximately 320 CenturyLink employees in New Mexico who are mostly technicians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\nFrontier AFA-CWA Members Kick off\nHuman Rights Committee at Pride <\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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