Breaking News Regarding 2009 AT$T Contract Negotiations!
IBEW Local Union 21 President-Business Manager Ron Kastner announces that a historic agreement has just been reached regarding our upcoming contract negotiations. IBEW Local Union 21 has reached an agreement with the seventeen (17) IBEW Local Unions that currently represent the "Legacy T" AT&T union represented employees throughout the United States.Those Local Unions have agreed to change the expiration dates of their contracts to match IBEW Local Union 21's contract expiration date of June 27, 2009. Working with these other local unions and the IBEW International, our union was also able to get AT&T to agree to nationwide bargaining.
The nationwide bargaining will be conducted right here in Illinois and headed up by our President-Business Manager Ron Kastner. Brothers and Sisters, this is the first time in over 25 years that an agreement has been reached on nationwide bargaining with AT&T. So now, AT&T workers in Boston, New Jersey, Philadelphia, California, and many other locations across the cou