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Communications Workers Win New Sprint Contracts

Down-to-the-deadline bargaining has produced tentative agreements covering 3,000 CWA members at Sprint Corp. local telephone operations in five states.

The agreements, which must be ratified by members, increase wages, address workers' concerns about health care cost shifting, and cover a number of local issues, said CWA Vice President Jimmy Gurganus. The majority of the agreements have three year terms, although one contract will run for 30 months and another for two years.

Contract provisions, including wage increases, health care options and local issues, vary across the units, Gurganus said.

Sprint's withdrawal of its demands for temporary layoffs, the ability to retain workers without regard to seniority, and other provisions that would have harmed workers' job security was an important point in the talks, he noted.

Sprint also said, in discussions with Vice President Gurganus' office, that it is willing to restart the national health care committee which had been working to manage costs while maintaining quality care for employees and their families.

The separate negotiations covered about 500 workers in central Florida; 1,800 in North Carolina; 400 in Bristol/Johnston City, Tenn.; 40 in Evansville, Ind.; 50 in Pennsylvania and 170 in Hood River, Ore.

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