In Breaking News, after several months of negotiations, IBEW Local 21 and AT&T reached a comprehensive Memorandum of Agreement on the new Premises Technician job title. The agreement, reached on Tuesday, December 19, 2006, provides a competitive wage, a 401-K plan with an 80% company match, numerous employment security provisions, and more. Details of the agreement will be reported on at the January 2007 unit meetings and on the IBEW Local 21 website in the weeks ahead. Negotiations on the Premise Technician job developed as a direct result of the Evolving Technology Agreement and 2004 bargaining with the company. As AT&T moves forward bringing fiber closer to customers' homes using fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) and fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) technologies, IBEW Local 21 members will now perform even more of the work. Yesterday?s agreement includes the potential of adding 1500 jobs to the local union by the end of 2008 and even more in 2009, as AT&T deploys the next generation of Internet Protocol (IP)-based serv
