• By: Steve Tisza
• July 14, 2009

IBEW Bargaining with AT&T has been ongoing since our last update and continues today at both the National and Local Tables. Medical Benefits were discussed in much detail as well ...

• By: Steve Tisza
• July 14, 2009

Last month, testimony in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation by a former health insurance insider named Wendell Potter made news even before ...

• By: Steve Tisza
• July 13, 2009

The Bargaining Team met with the Company Saturday into late evening, and all day Sunday and today. We were going over the latest full package the Company provided to us on Saturda...

• By: Steve Tisza
• July 10, 2009

Three months past expiration and mobilization is going strong. No matter how long the Company drags their feet this round of bargaining, we will continue to let customers and the ...

• By: Steve Tisza
• July 10, 2009

We are sorry that there has been so little news from the Bargaining Table, but the fact is that there has been very little happening at the table. Discussions that seemed to be pr...

• By: Steve Tisza
• July 10, 2009

Contract Negotiations with AT&T continued today at the National Table, and in the Prem Tech and Customer Consultant Bargaining Sub-Committees. At the National table, all of the ar...

• By: Steve Tisza
• July 10, 2009

You all have so much to be proud of with the huge splash you've made with introduction of the 2009 Trade Reform Accountability, Development and employment (TRADE) Act. The bill was...

• By: Steve Tisza
• July 9, 2009

Negotiations continued with discussions at the National Table covering a wide variety of issues including the Prem Tech, Engineering Assistant, and Customer Consultant job titles, ...

• By: Steve Tisza
• July 8, 2009

Who were the 7 Senators who switched and brought us victory on E-Verify in the Senate today? Attempts to attach mandatory E-Verify to the Stimulus Bill in March failed when 50 Sena...

• By: Steve Tisza
• July 7, 2009

IBEW negotiations continued today with AT&T at the Local Table and in the Force Adjustment/Job Security Sub-Committee. Our Union rejected many of AT&T's objectionable proposals. ...