A portion of the 2025 bonus for those called up on contingency assignments should be based on how prepared a manager was on Day One of the strike assignment.

Looks like maybe general counsel has signed off on the charge. https://www.nlrb.gov/case/10-CA-347889

CP need of help here. Trying to complete a fiber migration but can't get sync for the uverse TV. Any suggestions?

100% honest question. Now, after the company made their "best and final" offer, and I assume they mean it or their words won't mean s... ever again, and the union rejected it, how will this play out? Will one of the parties be forced by the feds to... — read more 

If and when D9 joins D3 there will be 32k employees striking. Thats 1/3 of the company on strike and approximately 4k CP managers no longer fullfilling their day to day roles. What will be the results of this cluster they have created? Where is... — read more 

Setting up to be an interesting week.

Boot sales are about to go up this quarter with Stankey’s bad faith bargaining teams. A lot of unsuspecting managers are going to get an email giving directions for their new CP assignment. Office managers have already reported to the Atlanta... — read more 

"Faced with an inevitable vote among the workers, in Tennessee, California and Texas, CWA officials conceded defeat instead of facing a decertification vote" https://www.nrtw.org/news/att-national-decerts-09052024/

Rhetorical questions incoming….Isn’t it the goal of the CWA to negotiate a suitable contract for its members? If the members vote it down, what does that imply?

Been at my job (Corporate Store) as a Rep for 6 years, I resigned effective immediately. I have $18K saved, kind of scared but this company was destroying me, I used to be a top Rep, 160% attainment for 4 years, got tired of it tbh & now for the... — read more 

Let’s get this strike on, tired of Stankey and his ilk taking all the money like they own the company. Rigged game

The score is 3-1. Att has managed to get involved in a labor strike, a contract rejection and a blackout that includes major sports and children's programing all within 30 days. What happens at 60 days?

ATT, you’ve pi---d off EVERYONE with your thoughtless policies

Questions on this.. the situations these negotiations put humans with families and responsibilities outside of work in.. what is your work/life like now?

Better get the contracts done before your stock market masters fire you Stankey. Missing FCF guidance doesn’t look good for a ROI on the 3 million raise you just received. You’ve managed to pi-s everyone outside the c-suite. Besides the few company... — read more 

Third week out of work. Just subtract another 5-6 k from what you were demanding.

According to the Harvard Business Review, between 70% and 90% of mergers and acquisitions fail as "companies too often pay the wrong price and integrate the acquisition in the wrong way."

D9 voted down their TA by 58%. Managers may have a short reprieve.

Posted 15 minutes ago on D9 Facebook page. 58% voted no

Excerpt from a post on labornotes.org: A MORE PROTECTED STRIKE Another way to protect strikers is to attempt to position a walkout as an unfair labor practice (ULP) strike. As recently emphasized in a tweet by Jennifer Abruzzo, the new NLRB General... — read more 

We door dashed in our lunch today, too much rain to grill out. Heading to the store for some adult beverages and snacks for football games this weekend, glad I’m not on DTV or I’d be pi---d. Stay safe out there CP team, it was brutal where we are... — read more 

Buckle up.

https://www.nlrb.gov/case/21-CA-349786 Looks like this was filed in CA by D9 yesterday. Anybody know what this is about?

Just to let every wire Tech In Baton Rouge know we will be crossing Monday 9/9/2024. 30+ wire techs are Tired of the paw paw core techs intimidating us when we have the controlling vote . See you at Sherwood Monday ready to work!

At the end of January there were 149.9k employees. Does anybody have thae updated employee count?

600 additional new manager deployments per week going forward. Contractors are also ramping up with plans to aggressively expand contractor deployments over the next several weeks. This will be the new normal for a while. Good luck to all that are... — read more 

I singed up for the credit monitoring and three weeks ago received notification that my SSN was found on the dark-web. Just wonderful! Placed fraud alert. Now someone in Taiwan just tried to use my credit card. Just wonderful! Now I wonder how often... — read more 

Get your 6-mo severance package while you can. From good source, changing to 1-mo by end of 1st qtr ‘25. Not sure if this is another “force people to leave now” rumor we-pon but didn’t sound that way.

Do we still get back pay?

Reported in USA Today Verizon announced Thursday it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Frontier Communications in an all-cash transaction valued at $20 billion. According to Verizon, the acquisition will 'significantly expand' the... — read more 

Well I hope we can get a team to fight like this for mobility contract when it comes up in District 3 for damn sure! Paying dues for something but haven’t seen any sparks fly before for us!

The guy that asked the 1st question last night is right. Union called a ULP strike and said the company isn't willing to bargain. Now the company is bargaining (even if it is slowly) so what's it going to take to call off the strike? In the past... — read more 

AT&T stands to benefit from the union workers' strike. For third quarter numbers, free cash flow will grow, which Wall Street is likely to embrace. In the meantime, business has been sustained by contingent workers, managers, and astute union... — read more 

Who does all the talking on the town hall call? This dude isn’t helping at all with the name-calling. It honestly had a feel like he just wants to sow hate. if this is the best the CWA has, we’re in trouble.

"Approximately 2300 Contingency Workers have been officially deployed to their Contingency Assignment." This is according to the CP portal. It used to be 1700.

Heard it yesterday from several people. It may as well not be true. It’s just that I heard it from unrelated sources. Anyone know more?

Posted the whole comparison of what the company offered versus what they want. Then gave the cost differences. Of course that makes it look like there's a huge difference. How about comparing it to REAL numbers, like maybe this year's actual... — read more 

How can we (craft) get the bargaining team replaced? They're clearly over their heads, and offered only excuses. They don't have the negotiating skills to compete with ATT, so we need someone new. Their egos are hurt, and it shows. They've taken some... — read more 

So, what did we all learn this evening on this wonderfully unnecessary phone call? Other than questions that were mostly answered with BS, the reports told us the rest....

After listening to tonight’s call and seeing the company’s latest “final offer”, one this is for certain, this is about to go for a long haul. The question now is do you have the pay to afford it? And if you’re a non-exempt manager or an employee... — read more