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C&T VP Ralph Maly Response to AT&T Hidden Agenda |
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Friday, 12 October 2007 |
To: All AT&T Local Presidents
Attached for your information is a possible template for AT&T’s bargaining strategy for 2009. This report reveals the company’s desire to reduce the technical positions of the bargaining unit and replace them with 3-tiered workgroups at substantially reduced wages. It would be company wide and affect all bargaining units across AT&T. Furthermore, this plan would retain only 5% of current SBC Techs in the highest paid tiered workgroup and increase management to reflect a 15 to 1 management to occupational ratio.
We plan to meet this challenge on our member’s job security and livelihoods with whatever means necessary. We expect the company to honor the collective bargaining agreement and we will enforce that expectation. Our members need to understand the impact this kind of strategy could have on their jobs and jobs for the future.
I will continue to keep you updated on any new information we may obtain and urge all members to mobilize and prepare for bargaining in 2009. Now is not the time to relax our guard as AT&T formulates its plans, we must remain vigilant as bargaining approaches. We have faced these challenges and negotiations before, but we have prevailed due to our intense unity and solidarity for what is fair and just.
In Unity,
Ralph Maly
Vice President C&T
Download possible template for AT&T bargaining stategy at the following link: http://www.cwalocal4250.org/news/binarydata/at%24t%20Clandistine%20Template-1.PDF |
