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AT&T
T today announced that it has reached
a new tentative agreement with the Communications Workers of America District
3 in wireline contract negotiations for AT&T Southeast (BellSouth
Telecommunications).
The three-year agreement covers more than 22,000 wireline employees in
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina,
South Carolina, and Tennessee, and will be submitted to the CWA's membership
for a ratification vote in coming days.
The two sides returned to the bargaining table and reached the new agreement
after employees failed to ratify a prior agreement that had been reached in
August.
The new agreement includes general wage increases in each year of the contract
for most employees – 2.25 percent the first year, 2.75 percent the second
year, and 3 percent the third year. It includes a 1 percent pension band
increase in each year of the contract for most employees. It will upgrade
service technicians and outside plant technicians to a new wage scale. It
also expands to additional employees a guaranteed job offer provision that
provides qualified surplused employees a guaranteed job opportunity with AT&T.
It maintains one of the most robust health care plans in the nation, with
increases in employee contributions.
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