AT$T "Legacy T" Bargaining Report # 54
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 concerns for job security.Stephenson's statement (see excerpts below) with AT&T's 2nd quarter results are clearly aimed at the bargaining: "the economy, losses in the wireline business, and legacy benefit costs drove earnings per share down 14%." He pretends to appreciate our "hard work," and talks about "good revenue growth in areas where we're leading and investing -- mobility, broadband and video, and IP data services& creating opportunities for employees&" However, at the bargaining table his minions continue to try to cut us out of the very jobs he says are the only growing parts of the business. They rejected our "emerging technologies" proposal which would have given us access to this work, continue to try to take away language that has reduced Contractors in the NTS title and refused our other job security proposals wh
