Days after Hurricane Katrina pummeled the Gulf Coast last August, repair crews hoping to breathe life into a damaged telephone network were temporarily blocked by government officials who refused to give phone company workers permission to enter a disaster-stricken area.

A Stipulation to the CWA/AT&T 2005 Contract has been agreed to by the Union and the Company concerning the movement of approximately 7000 AT&T employees, currently paid weekly, to bi-weekly pay.  The Company approached the Union because “SBC’s” employees are all paid bi-weekly, thus having a separate weekly payroll system for AT&T Corp employees, which caused SBC to incur an added expense.