CWA News | AT&T

Apr 5, 2012

AT&T Workers Stand Behind Their Bargaining Teams

With just two days until their contracts expire, AT&T workers across the country are mobilizing to close ranks around their bargaining teams.

Mar 31, 2012

CWA Members Vote Overwhelmingly to Authorize a Strike at AT&T

Members of the Communications Workers of America at four AT&T units voted overwhelmingly to authorize CWA leaders to call strikes if fair contracts cannot be reached.

Mar 29, 2012

Clock Ticking on AT&T Contracts

Mobilization is in high gear for the final week of bargaining for new contracts at AT&T East, Midwest, West and Legacy; contracts expire April 7. CWA locals and members are holding rallies and planning lots of actions to support bargaining teams this week and next.

Mar 15, 2012

Bargaining for Four AT&T Contracts Continues

CWA bargaining teams are continuing separate negotiations with AT&T Midwest, AT&T West, AT&T Legacy and AT&T East.

Mar 5, 2012

CWA Announces Tentative Contract Agreement Between AT&T Mobility and District 6

The Communications Workers of America (CWA) today announced a tentative contract agreement with AT&T Mobility in CWA District 6, an agreement that includes the return of a minimum of 2,000 jobs over the four year life of the agreement.

Mar 1, 2012

Bargaining Begins for CWA Contracts at AT&T Locations

CWA bargaining teams began separate negotiations with AT&T Midwest, AT&T West, AT&T Legacy and AT&T East on Feb. 29.

Feb 24, 2012

CWAers, Atlanta Activists Pull Off Stealth Action at AT&T

CWA Local 3204 activists, Occupy Atlanta and Jobs with Justice doubled up on the message that AT&T must stop layoffs and create good jobs in our communities.

Feb 17, 2012

AT&T Premise Tech Saves Life of 4-Month Old Baby

AT&T Premise Technician Andrel Reid has been on the job for just six months, but he will always remember his Feb. 1 visit to the Lansing, Mich., home of customer Christine Duffy. The Local 4034 member was dispatched to fix Duffy's U-verse service, but he ended up saving the life of Duffy's four-month old baby girl.

Feb 14, 2012

CWA Members Demand Fairness at AT&T ProAM in Pebble Beach

On Saturday, February 11, CWA Locals 9333, 9400, 9404, 9408, 9412, 9415, 9416, 9417, 9423, 9431, and 9432 took part in the mobilization action at the 2012 AT&T Pro-Am Golf Tournament in Pebble Beach, California.

Dec 7, 2011

CWA Supports New Bi-Partisan Call Center Jobs Legislation

The Communications Workers of America is strongly backing new, bi-partisan legislation introduced in the House of Representatives today that would ban federal grants and loans to corporations who move U.S. call center jobs overseas. CWA represents 700,000 workers in telecommunications and other sectors; more than 150,000 are customer service professionals.

Oct 7, 2011

CWA Files Response to Critics of the AT&T/T-Mobile Merger with the FCC

CWA recommends that the Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission resolve their issues with AT&T so that the AT&T/T-Mobile merger can provide real benefits for consumers, workers, and communities.

Oct 4, 2011

Customer Service Professionals Month Recognizes Workers in a Tough Profession

October is Customer Service Professionals month and the start of a major campaign to focus attention on the issues facing customer service and call center workers.

Sep 28, 2011

Sprint�s True Motive For Opposing AT&T/T-Mobile Merger: It Wants T-Mobile for Itself

Sprint�s opposition to the proposed AT&T/T-Mobile merger has been revealed to be nothing more than a classic bait-and-switch � with the Sprint CEO saying out of one side of his mouth the merger would hurt consumers � while talking out the other about buying T-Mobile for itself.

Sep 16, 2011

Breaking! CWA President Larry Cohen Talks ATT-TMO Merger on ‘The Communicators’

Watch CWA President Larry Cohen talk about the politics of the AT&T/T-Mobile merger on 'The Communicators.'

Sep 2, 2011

This Labor Day, Verizon Strike Has Bigger Lessons for U.S. Economy

For working families, this Labor Day brings a continued free fall from the middle class standard of living that American workers once enjoyed.

Sep 1, 2011

DOJ Seeks to Block AT&T Deal with T-Mobile, Jeopardizing New Jobs

Just as AT&T announced this week that it would return 5,000 wireless jobs to the United States following its pending merger with T-Mobile USA, the U.S. Justice Department announced it was seeking to block the deal.

Aug 31, 2011

CWA: DOJ Lawsuit to Block AT&T/T-Mobile Merger is Wrong Decision

In today�s sinking economy, where millions of Americans are looking for work, the DOJ has filed suit to block a merger that will create as many as 96,000 quality jobs. In the U.S., where too many Americans, especially in rural areas, don�t have access to the tools of Internet technology, the DOJ is looking to block a plan to build out high speed wireless access to 97 percent of the country should be opposed.

Aug 31, 2011