Outside techs Vote CWA at ATT Broadband, Springfield, Missouri
Seventy-four workers at an AT&T Broadband unit in Springfield, Missouri, voted 36-35 in favor of CWA representation in a vote on May 9.
The arbitrary nature by wage management decided workers' pay levels and raises was a major issue in the organizing campaign. There is no set policy for wage-setting at the facility. Some workers are paid less than more junior employees performing the same jobs. The workers are technicians, home installers and dispatchers.
The Springfield plant is the seventh AT&T Broadband facility where workers have voted to establish collective bargaining rights with CWA since the first AT&T cable workers voted for a union on October 1, 1999, at Gillette, Wyoming.
Besides Springfield and Gillette, CWA represents AT&T Broadband employees at Broadband facilities in Rawlins, Wyoming; Montrose/Delta, Colorado; Clinton, Iowa; Ocean City, Maryland; and Gallup, New Mexico.
Since July 1, 2000, union representation elections in AT&T have been covered by a Neutrality and Consent Election Agreement between CWA and the company.
