AT&T, Communications Workers of America Reach Tentative Agreements in AT&T Midwest, AT&T Corp Core Wireline Contract

  AT&T, Communications Workers of America Reach Tentative Agreements in AT&T
            Midwest, AT&T Corp Core Wireline Contract Negotiations

PR Newswire

DALLAS, July 21, 2012

DALLAS, July 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T* today announced that it has
reached tentative agreements with the Communications Workers of America in
core wireline contract negotiations for the AT&T Midwest region and AT&T Corp
(CWA Communications and Technologies unit).

The Midwest contract covers more than 13,000 employees in Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin. The AT&T Corp contract covers about 5,700
employees located throughout the country. 

Both labor contracts will be submitted to the CWA's membership for a
ratification vote in coming days.  The prior contracts negotiated in 2009
expired on April 7 of this year and employees have worked under the terms of
these expired contracts while negotiations continued. 

The three-year agreements include wage increases in each year and a modest
pension increase.  Health care benefits remain among the best in the country. 

AT&T continues to bargain with the CWA in the East and West regions, where
contracts also expired April 7 and employees continue to work under the terms
of the old contracts; and in the Southeast, where the current contract expires
on Aug. 4.

*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and
affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.

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