The Communications Workers of America said it had reached a “tentative contract agreement” with AT&T Mobility covering its “District 6” region that the union organization said would result in “the return of a minimum of 2,000 jobs over the four year life of the agreement.”
CWA’s District 6 includes approximately 9,300 workers in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas.
CWA reported that the agreement includes annual wage increases of 2%, 2.5%, 2.25% and 2.5% over the 4-year length of the contract. In addition, the deal “has no regressive change to existing pension plans,” and includes a $1,000 per member “ratification bonus.”
“I am pleased to present this proposal to our members, a proposal that supports a fair standard of living and reflects AT&T Mobility’s acknowledgment of the role our members play everyday in the company’s success,” CWA District 6 VP Claude Cummings Jr., said in a statement. “In particular, I am pleased that we were able to bring back a significant number of jobs.”
The previous contract expired on Feb. 25, at which time the CWA said the two sides remained “far apart” on many of the issues.
CWA claims more than 700,000 members across the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, including members at AT&T, AT&T Mobility, Verizon, Frontier and CenturyLink.
CWA came out last year strongly in favor of AT&T’s attempt to acquire T-Mobile USA, noting the deal would have resulted in $8 billion worth of new capital expenditures that would have produced 96,000 new jobs at tower companies, network infrastructure providers and software firms that develop applications. That deal was eventually shot down by regulators and pulled by AT&T, which was forced to hand over approximately $4 billion in assets to T-Mobile USA and its parent company Deutsche Telekom as a break-up fee.
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