August 11, 2009 (FinancialWire) — AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) said it has reached a tentative agreement with the Communications Workers of America in contract negotiations regarding a CWA district covering around 23,000 employees in California and Nevada.

The agreement, which will be submitted to the district’s membership for a ratification vote in coming days, is the second to be reached with a bargaining unit representing AT&T core wireline workers.

CWA’s Midwest region ratified a new contract agreement in a vote reported August 7. The contracts expired on April 4 and employees have worked under the terms of the expired contract while negotiations continued.

Negotiations are continuing in other regions where contracts expired on April 4, as they did in Midwest and West. These include CWA districts covering the Eastern U.S., the Southwest and Legacy T, the CWA ComTech unit.

AT&T is also continuing negotiations for core wireline contracts with the IBEW for employees mostly in Illinois and northwestern Indiana, where contracts expired June 27, and in the CWA’s Southeast region, where contracts expired August 8.

A total of about 120,000 employees are covered under the various contracts.

Dallas-based AT&T is a communications holding company whose subsidiaries and affiliates are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world.

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