District 6 Announces a Forthcoming Tentative Agreement

At 2:23 PM on February 6th, 2013 CWA Local 6203 President David Patton was notified through e-mail that there would be a conference call for all District 6 Local Presidents at 3:30 PM. On the conference call, President Patton was notified that our Bargaining Committee has reached a new Tentative Agreement with the Company, and have chosen to use Triple A to mail ballots directly to all members. At this time, the Bargaining Committee has chosen not to disclose any information about the pending Tentative Agreement, although we are being informed that the agreement is unanimously endorsed by the Bargaining Committee.

An explanation is to be mailed to each member directly on February 7th, 2013 with ballots following on the 8th. Ballots must be returned by February 25th, 2013 so please plan accordingly. Instructions on how to vote and where to return your ballots should be included with the ballot. District 6 intends to inform Local Presidents of the highlights of the new Tentative Agreement on February 12th. These decisions have been made at the district level without any input from CWA Local 6203, and the district has declined to provide any information about the Tentative Agreement at this time. CWA Local 6203 will make available any information about this tentative agreement immediately as we receive it.

We strongly recommend that in addition to checking this web site, members monitor the District 6 website for possible information on this forthcoming Tentative Agreement, as District 6 has indicated that they intend to make information available through that source as early as today. The District 6 website can be found at district6.cwa-union.org.

CWA Local 6203 is deeply disappointed that our Bargaining Committee has chosen to ignore the ballots from the previous TA, which clearly stated “I understand that a NO vote means CWA/AT&T would engage in traditional bargaining.” and has instead rushed to another Tentative Agreement, seemingly without regard for the desires of the dues-paying members.

President Patton is fully committed to closely monitoring this developing situation and immediately posting all new information as it becomes available. President Patton would like to express his apologies to our membership. He feels that our members should be better informed at this time. When the membership spoke and voted down the previous TA, his recommendation to everyone in District 6 on a Presidents Followup call was to return to the members for additional input on what they would like to see in further bargaining. We regret that District 6 was unable to take the time to meet this request. On that call, District 6 Vice President Claude Cummings expressed his intention to return to early bargaining without delay.



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