CWA/AT&T MOBILITY BENEFITS BARGAINING REPORT

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *June 13, 2008* * * * * * * * * * * * * *

The Bargaining Committee met with the Company late into the night with questions and challenges about some of the data they have thus far provided.  But the Company's responses continue to be meager and evasive and have yet to substantiate a financial need to shift a significant amount of health care costs onto the backs of our hard working members! In spite of us continually asking the question, they have yet to even identify anything specific in the current plan they believe to be their problem high cost areas.  All they can say is that the Union's proposal goes in the wrong direction!

We have come to these negotiations with the goal of reaching an agreement by June 30, but it appears that the Company did not.  Could it be they are hiding behind the buzz on health care to simply force our members to pay more?  We say it's time, AT&T, that you put your money where your mouth is.  Start working with us and give us the tools we need in order to find viable solutions to possible problems. . . .we have never been afraid of a little hard work!