AT&T Legacy T Bargaining 2012: Report # 2

Many years ago in bargaining, during a Company presentation, a CWA bargainer checked his face in a mirror. He then announced, “I was just checking to see if I had STUPID written across my forehead.”

After today’s presentation by the AT&T bargainers, “AT&T Compensation in a Competitive Marketplace”, your CWA team checked our foreheads. In the Company’s attempt to justify their attacks on our wages, benefits, pensions, and absence language, they presented a totally misleading document. They will be sharing it with you soon. It was an extremely creative and deceptive use of statistics: Comparing groups that should not have been compared, and tremendously exaggerating pay and benefits.

We will be giving you some more detailed examples in the coming days, but here’s a sample: They say the average total wage of AT&T Call Center workers (not counting benefits) is $67,000!

They say that when these Call Center workers retire, they will “have the opportunity” to receive 116% of their active income. Check out your own situation and see if that is true for you. (See page 18 of their document.)

Check that out, and then look at the whole document with that in mind.

AT&T thinks that it will convince you that your team should give into AT&T’s “reasonable” demand and pay our “fair share”. Instead, their propaganda should make you want to fight harder and gear up your mobilization even more.