CWA workers defend health care at AT&T

http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_4043

By Steve Share
15 May 2009

MINNEAPOLIS - Members of the Communications Workers of America walked a noon-hour informational picketline in downtown Minneapolis Thursday as negotiations continue on a nationwide contract between AT&T and CWA.
"As long as negotiations continue, we'll stay at work," said Shari Wojtowicz, president of CWA Local 7250, as a couple dozen CWA members picketed and chanted outside AT&T's Minneapolis offices.

A nationwide contract covering approximately 8,000 workers expired April 4.


Workers picketed outside the AT&T office in downtown Minneapolis Thursday.

Photo by Steve Share

"AT&T has already made it clear they don't want to agree to our major issues," Wojtowicz said. "They are still unwilling to address retiree health care," she said, which is a key concern for the union. "We're still so far apart with health care we can't even talk to them about their proposal," she said.

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