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Jan 25, 2011 - AT&T Surplus Mitigation Agreement Update
Apr 30, 2015

New Memorandums of Agreement (MOA's):

2011 Surplus Mitigation (MOA)
2011 Surplus Rehire to Appendix C (MOA)


January 25, 2011 at 9:00pm - Late yesterday, IBEW Local 21 leadership reached an agreement with AT&T that should minimize the negative impact on members from AT&T’s early January, 2011 Surplus announcement. After getting the latest information to you as fast as possible, and after fielding questions from members, we realized some information needs to be clarified and/or corrected. These changes will be in red italics.

Following are several major areas of the agreement. They include:

1) The two Network centers in Chicago slated to close in April, 2011 will still close, but not before 1/1/2012. These are the Network Provisioning Center at 311 W. Washington and the Network Reliability Center at 10 S. Canal.

2) There will be an additional SIPP incentive of $17,000 offered to all service pension eligible employees in affected surplus jobs titles in the Bill Smith Network Organization. This makes the total SIPP offer $47,500 for service pension eligible employees. Because of this change, the Company will completely re-canvas eligible pension eligible employees for SIPP. The new off payroll date for those taking the enhanced SIPP will be 2/11/2011.  The central office Telecommunication Specialists will be allowed to redo their SIPP for the enhanced SIPP, called OTSSP.  The OTSSP will be distributed by AT&T to employees later this week.

3) Surplus numbers in the following titles have been reduced.  Maintenance Administrators are reduced by 10, and Engineering Assistants reduced by 20.

4) 100 Network employees from Title Group 2 will move into the U-verse organization, with no economic protections, other than the Reassignment Pay Protection Plan (RIPP), found on pages 121-122 in Article 30 of the current CBA. To fill these positions, the Company will first solicit volunteers by order of seniority, and if there are not enough volunteers, movement will occur by inverse order of seniority.

5) 60 First Mile positions will be offered and be filled by employees in Title Group 2. The Company will first solicit volunteers by order of seniority, and if there are not enough volunteers, movement will occur by inverse order of seniority.

6) There is a guarantee of no surplus in protected titles in 1(d) of the 2011 Surplus Mitigation MOA in C&E and I&M through 3/31/2012.

7) There will now be a negotiated process for future jobs into AT&T’s U-verse organization. Before the Company hires from the street, jobs will first be offered to employees in Title Group 2.

8) For any employees moving to U-verse under the conditions of this agreement, should the economy improve or any other condition arise that results in a future Title Group 2 job opening in the CORE agreement, employees that transferred to the U-Verse organization can retreat back to CORE.

9) U-verse jobs will now be included in any rehiring according to the 2011 Surplus Rehire to Appendix C Memorandum.

10) There will be a give back of buried drops and locates. This was the key to getting AT&T to consider any of our Unions proposals.

11) Because AT&T knew of the impeding surplus announcement and still proceeded with hiring in the U-Verse organization, 100 Probationary Premise Technicians dating back to 9-17-2010 may on a one time occurrence, at the company’s sole discretion, be displaced.  These employees will in turn leave the Company in accordance with the force adjustment language of Appendix C. AT&T may, in its sole discretion, choose not to terminate a displaced Premise Technician, but to allow that Premise Technician’s employment to continue. To clarify - sections 7.04 and 7.05 in the current CBA will still apply to Premise Technicians who may be displaced.

Questions about this update should be directed to your Area or Chief Steward, or Business Representative. 


International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local Union 21
4701 Auvergne
Lisle, IL 60532
  630-960-4466

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