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This morning the full committee met with the company and reached tentative agreements on Appendix A7

The bargaining committee met today to continue to go over bargaining demands and prepare for subcommittee meetings with the company tomorrow. The Article 26 Subcommittee and Appendix G/COS subcommittee met this morning and afternoon to continue to examine and analyze data to prepare for the coming week.

Today our full committee met with the company’s committee in formal session. 

CWA/AT&T Midwest Bargaining Report #3

March 9, 2018

CWA/AT&T Midwest Bargaining Report #2

Yesterday the company passed retrogressive proposals regarding health care and pensions.

Today, bargaining begins for AT&T Midwest members. We’re supporting our CWA bargaining team and are taking action to win the best possible union contract at AT&T!

We all must do our part to send a strong message to AT&T that we demand good jobs, healthcare, and a secure retirement.

Thousands of AT&T Midwest members are taking action today to demand a fair contract, and even more CWAers are taking action in solidarity with us. Please reply to this email with your photos from today’s actions so we can share!

Negotiations between CWA District 4 and AT&T Midwest kicked off on March 6th, 2018 in Arlington Heights, Illinois. CWA District 4 Vice-President, Linda Hinton and AT&T Vice-President of Labor Relations, Randy White each delivered opening remarks.

Today, bargaining kicked off for AT&T Midwest. We are united for a fair contract.

U.S. Supreme Court upholds Oregon state restrictions on the working hours of women, justified as necessary to protect their health. A laundry owner was fined $10 for making a female employee work more than 10 hours in a single day - 1908

W.E.B. DuBois, educator and civil rights activist, born - 1868

Representatives of the Knights of Labor and the United Mine Workers meet in St. Louis with 20 other organizations to plan the founding convention of the People’s Party. Objectives: end political corruption, spread the wealth, and combat the oppression of the rights of workers and farmers - 1892
 

A state law was enacted in California providing the 8-hour day for most workers, but it was not effectively enforced - 1868
 

American Federation of Labor issues a charter to its new Railroad Employees Department - 1909

One of the first American labor newspapers, The Man, is published in New York City. It cost 1¢ and, according to The History of American Journalism, “died an early death.” Another labor paper, N.Y. Daily Sentinel, had been launched four years earlier - 1834

Leonora O’Reilly was born in New York. The daughter of Irish immigrants, she began working in a factory at 11, joined the Knights of Labor at 16, and was a volunteer investigator of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911. She was a founding member of the Women’s Trade Union League - 1870
 

Susan B. Anthony, suffragist, abolitionist, labor activist, born in Adams, Mass. "Join the union, girls, and together say: Equal Pay for Equal Work!" - 1820

(Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff is an encyclopedic guide to 350 labor films from around the world, ranging from those you’ve heard of—Salt of the Earth, The Grapes of Wrath, Roger & Me—to those you’ve never heard of but will fall in love with once you see them. Fiction and nonfiction, the films are about unions, labor history, working-class life, political movements, and the struggle between labor and capital.)

  
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass born into slavery near Easton, Md. - 1818
 
John L. Lewis, president of United Mine Workers of America and founding president of the CIO, born near Lucas, Iowa - 1880