• By: Steve Tisza
• July 30, 2009

Does 1986 remind you of today? In 1986, CWA lost its ability to negotiate contracts at a National table because of the breakup of AT$T through divestiture in 1984. During the tim...

• By: Steve Tisza
• July 30, 2009

Negotiations have been continuing with AT&T but they once again are moving at a snails pace. We are very disappointed by AT&T's complete disregard for their employees and for the ...

• By: Steve Tisza
• July 27, 2009

The purpose of the meeting is to explain the CWA District 4 - AT$T Midwest "Tentative Contract Agreement" reached on July 15, 2009 and to conduct a "Ratification Vote" of all CWA L...

• By: Steve Tisza
• July 24, 2009

Download complete report in PDF format. One more example of how AT$T is succeeding in their strategy to divide and conquer the CWA AT$T Bargaining Units due to a failure of CWA's N...

• By: Steve Tisza
• July 24, 2009

AT&T Exceeds Wall Streets Expectations: Earlier today, AT&T announced their 2009 second quarter results, and it should be clearly noted that earnings were better than had be...

• By: Steve Tisza
• July 23, 2009

Right now, the Legacy T Union and the Company bargaining teams are not meeting. The Company continues its demands for exorbitant cost shifting while refusing to address our real c...

• By: Steve Tisza
• July 21, 2009

A "Special Membership Meeting" will be held on Saturday, August 1, 2009 at HIGH NOON. The location will be announced as soon as possible. The purpose of this 'Speci...

• By: Steve Tisza
• July 21, 2009

After a short meeting on Monday, bargaining stalled again yesterday as the Company continues to insist on their specific Health Care proposal and still has given no indication that...

• By: Steve Tisza
• July 21, 2009

Negotiations continue this week with detailed discussions at the National table, and in the Premise Technician and Customer Consultant sub committees. There are numerous unresolve...

• By: Steve Tisza
• July 20, 2009

Download this 17 page (PDF) summary of benefits package I received at the Friday, July 17, 2009 CWA District 4 Local Officers meeting in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. PLEASE READ enti...