AT&T Southeast Contract Negotiations Update

More than a month after their contracts expired, AT&T Southeast members keep doing their jobs even as their bargaining team field one insulting proposal after the other from their employer at negotiating sessions.

Morale is still high because the workers know what is at stake and they continue mobilizing.

CWA Local 3607 President, Jocelyn Bryant said, “The local’s members will soon begin a campaign of letter writing to their members of Congress to keep them informed of what has been going on in negotiations, especially the lack of progress.”

Members have also continued wearing specific color clothing on specific days — such as blue on Mondays, white on Wednesdays, red on Thursdays, and black on Fridays, with inside techs wearing orange — as a show of solidarity.

Bryant said turnout has been high at mobilizing classes where members get to meet counterparts from other work sites.

"We hope to show the company that we matter,” she said. “We want the company to know that we don't like this and we're not going to stand for it anymore. We want the workers to know that if they don't pay attention and stand up for what is theirs, they are going to lose a lot of things. The company will try to take back things, including some of the health care benefits. The pay raises are not going to be as good. They'll lose some of the respect that they have at work right now.”