SBC Talks Continue
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
SBC Communications and the union
representing 100,000 striking workers say intensified
bargaining has led to some progress toward a new contract.
About one-thousand of the striking workers are in Arkansas.
Today is the final day of the scheduled four-day strike by the
Communications Workers of America over health care and job security
issues. The walkout is scheduled to end just after midnight.
Differences still remain between the sides over how much the
CWA workers would pay toward their medical costs -- and whether
union workers could fill jobs in the company`s growth areas.
Those areas are now staffed largely by contract employees.
