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Welcome to the 2nd edition of the CWA District 3 Newsletter

The AT&T Southeast Utilities and Billing bargaining units have voted to ratify their contracts:

Brothers & Sisters,

I have attached several documents which detail the specifics of the BST, Utilities, & Billing Tentative Agreements.

I am proud to report that your bargaining teams have reached tentative agreements covering the AT&T Southeast, Utilities, & BBI Contracts

The parties continue to meet in an effort to bring closure to this session of bargaining. Differences still remain but headway is being made.

Your bargaining team met with at&t today and expect to return to the table later this evening.

Your bargaining team has spent some time preparing for a late afternoon meeting with AT&T.

Your bargaining team continued to meet among ourselves today. We submitted a data request for information to use in preparation for an appropriate counter proposal. We hope to meet with the company again tomorrow.

The bargaining team met with the company today and received their counter proposal.

Your bargaining team is scheduled to meet with the Company later today to receive their counter proposal.

Your bargaining team met among ourselves today, waiting for the company?s response to the proposals we passed yesterday, which we feel represented a fair set of work rules and benefits which you deserve. The company has informed us that they will not be finished until tomorrow with a counter offer.

Your bargaining team met with the company today and passed a proposal addressing work rules. We continue to address wages, benefits, and work rules.

Your bargaining team continued to assess the latest documentation we have received from AT&T.

Your bargaining committee will be meeting later today with AT&T.

Your bargaining team met with AT&T once more after yesterday?s report.

Your bargaining team met today with AT&T. We countered their inadequate wage offer, countered the company benefit proposal and gave them (once again) our position on Wire Tech issues. We will be meeting into this evening.

The bargaining team spent the day working on a counter proposal to AT&T?s wage and benefit proposal.

The bargaining team met with the company today. We asked thorough and calculated questions in an effort to understand their close-fisted position toward our members.

Your bargaining team met today and continued to plan a response to the company?s negligible proposal referenced in Bargaining Report #68.

Today, forty days after the expiration of the contract, AT&T made an economic proposal and resubmitted their last benefit offer.

Your bargaining team met with the company and we are awaiting their response. We understand your frustration and your team is equally as frustrated.

Your bargaining team met with the company yesterday evening. We received a proposal regarding Wire Techs that was inadequate to say the least. We questioned the company intensely and received contradictory answers.

The bargaining team is preparing to meet with the Company this evening.