Communications Workers of America Ratify Agreement Covering Mobility Employees in AT&T's Southeast

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May 28, 2010, 1:35 p.m. EDT · Communications Workers of America Ratify Agreement Covering Mobility Employees in AT&T's Southeast Region


DALLAS, May 28, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- AT&T's wireless company, AT&T Mobility LLC, today announced that wireless employees in its Southeast Region (CWA District 3) have voted to ratify a four-year agreement with the Communications Workers of America.

The agreement covers about 11,200 CWA members in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.

AT&T Mobility and the CWA had reached the agreement on April 16 -- before expiration of the prior contract at 11:59 p.m. that night.

The agreement demonstrates that even in tough economic times and in the midst of major changes in the marketplace and the telecommunications industry, the company and union can work together to maintain good union jobs with wages and benefits that are among the best in the country.

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