I would like to take this opportunity to thank the members of ATT Advertising Solutions for their vote of confidence in the work of the Solutions Bargaining Team.

This is a fair contract negotiated at a time of economic uncertainty and a time of rapid decline of an industry that has experienced great success in the past.  No contract ever produces only gains for the members but any good bargaining team will negotiate to improve more than is given up.  This contract exemplifies this.

There are significant potential improvements to each sales channel’s opportunity to earn greater dollars going forward.  Each channel has an increase in their target compensation on which each set of gates and rates was modeled.  It is a marked change and change is always scary but the Union, through the continuous bargaining process, will monitor the compensation plans to make sure we were on target and negotiate changes where necessary.

And, with this ratification the days off between Christmas and New Years are guaranteed for 2010 and 2011!!  Hopefully you all agree with the bargaining team that this beats a $500 signing bonus.

In Unity,

Linda B. Crawford

Karen Carr, Local 3204

Todd Master, Local 3104

Paul Thomas, Local 3603

CWA-BELLSOUTH TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC, FOR UTILITY OPERATIONS; CWA-AT&T BILLING SOUTHEAST, LLC; CWA-AT&T ADVERTISING SOLUTIONS, IN DISTRICT 3 RATIFY A CONTRACT.

CWA-BELLSOUTH TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC. (BST) DISTRICT 3 DID NOT RATIFY

Members of Communications Workers of America, AT&T Southeast, did not approve a new three year contract covering 30,000 plus workers in nine states.

The vote was 60% to 40%, of the votes cast, against ratification.

As I stated during my campaign, “this is not business as usual”. It has not been District policy in the past to post the numbers for each Local; however in order to dispel any questions surrounding the count, the numbers are attached by Local.

The staff and I will begin Monday discussing strategy and contacting affected Locals to determine the next step to obtain a fair and just contact for AT&T Southeast members in District 3.

Judith R. Dennis

Vice President – District 3