AT&T, IBEW Reach Tentative Contract on DirecTV Workers

AT&T and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers reached a pair of tentative agreements covering nearly 3,000 IBEW-represented workers in 14 states picked up when AT&T bought DirecTV in 2015, the telco said in a news release Tuesday. One agreement covers more than 1,600 workers in AT&T's field services group, and the other 1,300 call center workers in Boise, Idaho, and Missoula, Montana, the company said. The tentative contracts cover such issues as wages, healthcare, pensions and work rules and will go to the union's membership for a vote in coming days, it said.