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We are pleased to announce that a random drawing chose the winners of the Robert D. Johnson Memorial Scholarship

D4 Mobilization team is using Mobile Billboards at sporting events to shine light on AT&T's lies and deception. To date billboards have been seen at Cleveland Cav, Detroit Tiger, Milwaukee Buck, Cleveland Indians and last weekend at Indy 500.

Please call 1-877-426-8013 and ask Congress to Investigate AT&T and where the Tax Breaks went!

The Bargaining team wanted to take a few minutes of your time to update everyone on our contract negotiations.  Your elected bargaining committee of six, along with the CWA District 4 Committee chair and District 4 Staff Representatives, opened formal Bargaining on March 6, 2018 and here we are now just a little over a year and ninety-five bargaining reports later we are still working without a contract.

One year expiration Rally in Columbus Ohio on 4/14/19

Local 4326 President, Harold Foster met with Rep. Davidson on 4-15-19.

CWA Local 4034 met with Rep. Slotkins folks, pictured is Slotkin staff and Ralph Prince S-T Local 4034.

CWA Local 4319 VP Erika White and Sec-Treas Chad Merrick meet with Kaptur Staff person.

As you know, over the past few weeks the Bargaining Team has continued negotiations to reach an agreement with the company.

As we meet today, we have not reached an acceptable agreement with AT&T on a contract.

In light of yet another surplus affecting many members in District 4 . . .

While the committee would like to relay something meaningful in this report, we sadly must share some of the same news we have shared before.

District 4 Locals hand delivering letters to Congressmen and Congresswomen working on holding corporations accountable.

Over the last 10 days the Union committee passed proposals on Appendix F, Benefits, Employment Security, Jobs, and had discussions about the remaining open aspects of the agreement.

The Union, once again REJECTED the Company’s “revised final offer”. The CWA District 4 Midwest Bargaining Committee met yesterday with AT&T in formal session to exchange proposals on some of the remaining open items.

The CWA District 4 Midwest Bargaining Committee met this week numerous times to assess how we can get AT&T to reach an agreement that provides a fair contract for all of us.

We are sure that everyone is aware of the Company correspondence regarding the status of bargaining, that went out yesterday.

The Robert D. Johnson Memorial Scholarship Fund, administered by the Cleveland Foundation, is now accepting applications for the 2019-2020 academic year.  Application deadline is 5 p.m. EDT, April 15, 2019.  Awards will be announced by June 15, 2019.

After many months of little progress in moving towards an acceptable agreement, we are returning to the bargaining table in an attempt to restart meaningful negotiations. We are taking this initiative as we hope the company will begin to make movement from their previous positions.