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IAM, ALPA, AFA-CWA and TNG-CWA Workers Reach Tentative Contracts—and More Bargaining News |
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Customer service workers, flight attendants, pilots and telecom workers gain tentative contracts—and more updates here from the “Bargaining Digest Weekly.” The AFL-CIO Collective Bargaining Department delivers daily, bargaining-related news and research resources to more than 900 subscribers. Union leaders can register for this service through our website, Bargaining@Work.
WORK STOPPAGES AND JOB ACTIONS
IBEW, WTMJ-TV: Camera and media tech workers, represented by the Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 715, picketed outside of WTMJ-TV studios in Milwaukee as talk show host Conan O’Brien visited the NBC affiliate on his nationwide promotional tour. The local is in the process of negotiating a new contract.
SETTLEMENTS
UAW, Ford: The UAW at Ford accepted changes to their 2007 national labor contract aimed at saving billions. Fifty-nine percent of Ford’s production workers and 58 percent of skilled trades workers agreed to the changes, which protect their wages but suspend bonuses, alter work rules and eliminate the jobs bank. The changes also allow Ford to finance part of a retiree health care trust with more stock.
IAM, Hawaiian Airlines: Some 1,500 customer service, reservation, ramp and clerical workers at Hawaiian Airlines, represented by the Machinists (IAM) District 141, announced a tentative agreement with the carrier that provides wage increases ranging from 3 percent to 10 percent, freezes current employee health care contributions, provides an incentive compensation program and enables performance and profit bonuses.
ALPA, Alaska Airlines: Pilots at Alaska Airlines, represented by the Air Line Pilots (ALPA), reached an agreement in concept with the carrier on a tentative agreement. The proposed settlement details have not been disclosed.
AFA-CWA, Alaska Airlines: Flight attendants at Alaska Airlines, represented by the Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA), jointly announced ratification of a two-year contract extension for the airline’s 2,830 flight attendants. The extension offers flight attendants a 1.5 percent pay increase on May 1, 2010 and 2011.
TNG-CWA, San Francisco Chronicle: Telecommunications workers at the San Francisco Chronicle, represented by The Newspaper Guild-CWA (TNG-CWA) Local 39521, reached a tentative agreement that would help save the newspaper from financial demise. The agreement provides changes to hours, wages, benefits and staff reductions.
CWA, Embarq: Some 250 workers at Embarq, represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 6327, approved a new three-year contract with the Overland Park, Mo., telephone company. The pact provides annual 2 percent raises for three years and increases several reimbursement items for job expenses.
TWU, Howell: Workers in the New Jersey township of Howell, represented by the Transport Workers (TWU), have a new agreement that provides a 3 percent pay increase retroactive to Jan. 1, 2008, and a 3 percent increase in 2010. It also will give back members 1 percent of their base pay toward health benefits.
ORGANIZING
Child Care Workers: Child care workers in Washington State could get collective bargaining rights under a bill passed by the state House, which allows child care workers to unionize if the day care or school they work for accepts state subsidies for children from low-income families.
Disclaimer: This information is being provided for your information only. As it is compiled from published news reports, not from individual unions, we cannot vouch for either its completeness or accuracy; readers who desire further information should directly contact the union involved.
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