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A special message from our President:
We are all in this together
June 19 2008
Contract negotiations for Mobility health care are under way and are not going good. The company is making unreasonable demands on the union and we do not feel they are really making an attempt to negotiate in good faith. If we do not reach an agreement by June 30 then the process will be moved on to arbritation. We will at that point be doing some mobilization activities that I hope everyone will participate in. We distributed buttons that read ATT cutting health care is a sick idea, we are asking our members to wear these buttons everyday. Remember this is not just a Mobility issue it is an AT&T issue.
An injury to one is an injury to all. All of the landline side of the company other then Bell South will start negotiations around February of 2009. Bell South's contract expires in August 2009. The contract that Mobility reaches is what we can expect on the land line side of the house.
There is not reason that a company making the profits that AT&T does saying they can not afford to continue providing us with the health care we have had over the year. Remember the company has been paying our health care and wages and still are making the profits they are. DO THEY REALLY NEED MORE PROFIT, WHEN IS IT ENOUGH?
Everyone needs to step up and let management know that we expect the company to
negotiate in good faith.
Send a message if provoked will strike.
