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 4700 Member,
Only a few weeks into bargaining, I’m afraid reports from the table are bleak. I have personally heard from our members negotiating for us. They are so frustrated with the lack of interest from the company. Most recently AT&T demonstrated this by refusing to speak to our team for the last few days. The company feels that you are so weak that you will take anything. Anything at this point equates to nothing. No job security, shouldering over 30% of your healthcare, and zero tolerance attendance policies. Those on attendance steps can imagine how a zero tolerance policy would affect them if it currently existed. The team went on to say that this situation is exponentially more difficult than in 2009 where the company would at least speak to them with some interest in resolving the dispute. The company has literally terrorized us into being scared to stand up for our jobs. They hold the very things we need to be fighting for over our heads. Our actions deserve an equal and opposite reaction. We have to hold one another up and tell the company we are a reasonable people here to renegotiate a contract. We have to tell them together. Think of it this way: when one of your kids is screaming it’s annoying and sometimes if ignored, they lose interest. When all of your kids are screaming it’s awfully hard to ignore and usually gets a reaction out of you. We have got to start screaming together because we need a reaction out of Ma.
We all want a fair contract. We also all want to gain that contract as unscathed as possible. We have to consider what we are able to give up to get there. Many of us feel like making a statement by striking is the best way to make a strong impact. While it certainly would be the most extreme measure, leadership feels it would also, at this point, be the most costly. I had the opportunity to hear from a CWA member who was involved in a 90 day strike. He said it was one of the toughest things his family has ever had to endure. He went on to say that our actions now to get the company to talk at the table are so much more manageable for each of us personally. It’s true actually, and was an excellent point. We have to help each other act now on a smaller level, so that our families aren’t shouldering a greater burden that absolutely necessary.
On a local level, your mobilization team has forwarded a couple of ideas to District leadership that would likely gain vast participation and move the AT&T bargaining team. Hopefully they are seriously considered. Anyone with an idea that can be forwarded on, please let a team member know. I’d certainly rather send ideas to District that can rally most members without the constraints of or impacts on things like attendance records for example.
Amy Hopewell
4700 Mobilization Coordinator
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