Open Letter to Our Members
in District 4
From Your
CWA Elected Bargaining Team
March 28, 2009
Saturday
Your District 4 Bargaining
Committee would like to thank you for your support including the strong
YES vote authorizing a strike. With less than seven days till
contract expiration, we thought it imperative for you to know what is
taking place at the bargaining table.
From the beginning of this
process AT&T’s position has been to seek “Fundamental Change.”
Here are some examples of what the Company has proposed as “fundamental
change”.
·
Unrealistic
massive cost shifting to our members on healthcare
·
Elimination of
Lump Sum pension option
·
No base wage
increases for 2 years for ANY member
·
Elimination of
Sunday Premium
·
Eliminate
double time after 49 hours
·
Unlimited
Mandatory Forced Overtime – in ALL States
·
Elimination
of Guaranteed Personal Time Off
·
Gutting our
Job Security Agreements
·
Destroying our
current Monitoring protections
·
New Service
Representative title at a 40% reduction in base wages
·
Refusal to
bargain for current retirees
·
No movement on
DataCom workforce issues
·
Negative
proposals regarding ALL Uverse members
Is this the kind of
“Fundamental Change” that YOU expect from a Company that
made $12.9 BILLION Dollars in profits for the year 2008?
Let’s ask CEO Stephenson and
other AT&T Executives about their 33 million dollars in salaries, the
dividend increase that put more money in their pockets and other perks
including the money paid to them by AT&T for their houses in San
Antonio.
TURN UP THE HEAT OR IT’S
FEET ON THE STREET – THE CHOICE IS YOURS
Jay
Egan Jack
Huber Greg Streby
Liz VanDerWoude
George Walls Pam
Wynn
