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Slashdot - For 30 days, 17,000 AT&T workers in nine different states from the CWA union went on strike. As it began one North Carolina newspaper noted some AT&T customers "report prolonged internet outages." Last week an Emory University economist told NPR
that "If it wasn't disruptive or it didn't have any kind of negative
element towards customers, then AT&T, I suspect, wouldn't feel any
kind of pressure to negotiate."
The 30-day strike was "the longest telecommunications strike in the region's history," according to the union
— announcing today that they'd now negotiated "strong tentative
contract agreements" and that workers would report to work for their
scheduled shifts tomorrow.
The new contract in the Southeast covers 17,000 workers technicians,
customer service representatives and others who install, maintain and
support AT&T's residential and business wireline telecommunications
network in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi,
North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.
Wages and health care costs were key issues at the bargaining table,
and the five-year agreement includes across the board wage increases of
19.33%, with additional 3% increases for Wire Technicians and Utility
Operations. The health care agreement holds health care premiums steady
in the first year and lowers them in the second and third years, with
modest monthly increases in the final two years.
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