Date Posted
CWA Reaches Four Year Contract Agreement with AT&T that Protects Jobs, Health Care, and Living Standards for Connecticut Workers.
Highlights of the contract include:
· Wages:
o 3% retroactive to 2/4/2017
o 3% increase effective 8/13/17
o 2.25% increase effective 8/12/2018
o 2.5% increase effective 8/11/2019
· Pension: Continued minimum pension interest crediting rate of 4% annually
· Employment Security: Minimized negative impact of AT&T’s sale of CT to Frontier
· Medical: Minimized impact of increased health costs with wages that offset increase and make members better off economically over the duration of the agreement
· Article 7: Improved tables for EVSP with an option to elect deposit into Cash Balance Account
· Success Sharing Plan: Renewed SSP
· National Transfer Plan: Renewed NTP
· Storm Policy: Modified Storm Policy retaining existing practices
· Tuition Assistance Plan: Continued TAP benefits
· Plant: Increased Standby Pay, Out of State Differential and added Home Garaging Trial option for all Network Delivery Technicians
· Grievances: Ability to Arbitrate Grievance cases occurring after expiration
This contract, if ratified, will become effective at 12:00am on April 10, 2016 and shall terminate, unless extended in accordance with its terms, at 11:59pm on April 4, 2020
Click below for Memorandum of Understanding
http://www.cwa1298.org/sites/cwa1298d6.prometheuslabor.com/files/mou_-_att_east__cwa_2016.pdf