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The company has made some movement in the right direction. The company continues to be apathetic towards worker safety.

Your bargaining team is continuing to meet with the company. As time ticks away under the current working agreement the company needs to get serious.

Your bargaining team worked late into last night preparing for a series of meetings today.

The BBI bargaining team met with the company on Thursday and discussed the outstanding proposals.

Your bargaining team is ready and willing to do whatever it takes to get a fair contract. We are continuing to meet and plot the required course for victory.

Your bargaining team continues to meet with the company. We have proposed to upgrade Wage Scale 21 to Wage Scale 27. We insist that the company improve the work life in the Consumer and Finance environments. We once again proposed to give quota relief to employees on an excused or approved absence.

On August 5th, 2015 CWA Staff Rep Bill Eberhardt, Local 3108 President Steve Wisniewski, Tracy McFadden and Kelly Sawyers negotiated a new four year contract for the GMP Retiree Trust.

The union and company met on Wednesday and exchanged additional proposals.

Your bargaining team met with the company in sub-committee today. We are continuing to plan our strategy for achievement.

The Union and Company met Tuesday and discussed proposals that had been previously passed.

Your bargaining team had several meetings with the company today. We proposed a fair benefit package for all employees, including retirees. The company seemed taken aback that we asked them to consider bringing premiums down. We explained that we expect our healthcare and benefits to be just as important as corporate profits.

The committee met with the company yesterday and each side gave opening statements.

Your bargaining team met with the company and discussed several items pertinent to our overall success. The company made it clear that improvement to employees? healthcare and pension plans are dependent on how much work we are willing to allow to be shifted into the Wire Tech scope of work.

The bargaining team met today at the main table where the company presented a number of counter proposals to several of our proposals. We are caucusing among ourselves and have scheduled a meeting with the company to respond.

AT&T Southeast employees have voted overwhelming to authorize President Shelton to call a strike against AT&T Southeast if necessary.

Your bargaining team met with the company in sub-committee today. We are in the process of clarifying several broad issues.

Today at the bargaining table the company rejected the bridging of seniority for any service in a company acquired entity. We continued to demand fair treatment for Wire Technicians.

Your bargaining team met with the company today. The company rejected proposals that would improve language around penalty pay for scheduling and a guaranteed number of weekends off. They also rejected proposals around connecting overtime, service requirements and polling before forcing overtime.

Your bargaining team met with the company today. The company rejected language protecting breaks during partial sessions and increase in pay for Sales Consultants and Sales Associates.

Your bargaining team met at the main table and in sub-committee today. We agreed on improving the family of skills for the Digital Technicians. We were successful in backing the company down from forcing Service Representatives into Sales Associate Titles.

Don LaRotonda, Assistant to D3 Vice President sent a number of questions to ATT with regards to Retiree Concessions. We are posting the response we received from the company

Your bargaining team met at the main table today. We agreed on some clean up language and countered several company proposals.

Your bargaining team has been deeply involved in sub-committees today. The company doesn?t appear to be interested in overtime relief and work rules around overtime equalization.

Your bargaining team met at the Common Interest Table and in Sub-Committee today. We proposed to bring the Utilities Operations into the Core Contract. We also had some productive talks around work rules, vacation availability, temporary employees, Article 10 transfers, and mechanization of requests for paid time off.