AT&T, CWA Reach Tentative Agreements Covering Former DIRECTV Call Center Employees

DALLAS, Dec. 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T* has reached three tentative agreements with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) in negotiations covering CWA-represented former DIRECTV employees in five call centers.

The agreements cover about 2,000 employees working in call centers in Eden Prairie, MN; Englewood, CO; Huntington, WV; Huntsville, AL; and Tulsa, OK; and will place the employees in three existing labor contracts.

Including these tentative agreements, the company has now reached nine agreements with the CWA and IBEW this year collectively covering nearly 8,000 former DIRECTV employees. Six have already ratified.

The former DIRECTV employees joined AT&T as part of AT&T's July 2015 acquisition of DIRECTV.

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