As our IBEW bargaining teams continue meeting with AT&T, we take this opportunity to break down the latest news and proposals related to benefits and share news about expanding mobilization activities. As we have continuously reported, our Union came into these negotiations understanding the crisis in healthcare and the costs of health insurance both in our country and here at AT&T. Knowing that discussions in this area would be extremely difficult, we were more than prepared to work through this with creative solutions - including our IBEW proposal which would reduce the cost of healthcare for AT&T without overburdening our members with excessive costs or scaling back on medical services. In other words, we presented a rational and progressive plan that would reduce health care spending for AT&T while maintaining a high level of benefits for all IBEW members and retirees. On the other end of the spectrum, AT&T came in to negotiations with tunnel vision, demanding that we agree to the current management benef
