AT$T "Legacy T" Special Bargaining Report #51
Some of you might be wondering why we are still bargaining while District 4 and the AT&T Midwest already have an agreement.Some of you might look at that agreement and think we ought to take it.
It is not the job if this bargaining team to second-guess the decisions that were made in District 4. What we can say is that our issues are different. One of their key issues was to raise the pay of the "premise technicians" and they accomplished that. Our issue has been job security from day one. Our members are all over the nation. Aside from normal job loss, contracting out, automation, and moving work to management we now face a new threat - we are the only nationwide unit and the company can (and has) all too easily move our work to employees under the other Contracts. Our techs have felt this already and as other areas (and IBEW) have accepted a new commission-based (60% base/40% commission) sales title, this makes our call centers especially vulnerable. Between the 2005 bargaining and today we have lo
