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CWA to AT&T Board and Investors: Reject Damaging Proposals from Elliott Management
News
October 3, 2019
Elliott Management purchased about 1% of AT&T's stock and announced plans last month to extract profits from the company by cutting jobs and selling off critical assets.
CWA Members Testify About New York's Lack of Rural Broadband Access
News
September 19, 2019
Telecommunications companies are leaving New Yorkers in rural areas behind by failing to build out broadband.
AT&T Must Reject Elliott Management’s Outdated Corporate Raider Strategy that Destroys Jobs and Long-Term Value
Press Release
This week, Elliott Management announced its plan to extract profits from AT&T by eliminating jobs and sending work to low-wage contractors, further enriching its billionaire founder and CEO Paul Singer. Adoption of these proposals will harm AT&T’s workers, customers and long-term investors, and the Communications Workers of America is firmly opposed to this strategy.
CWA, Other Advocacy Groups, File Amicus Brief in Suit Against FCC Ruling Weakening Municipal Authority to Manage Public Property
Press Release
Today the Communications Workers of America (CWA), the National Digital Inclusion Alliance, and Public Knowledge are filing an amicus brief in the lawsuit against the Trump administration’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decision to weaken municipal authority to manage streets and public property.
CWA Calls for New Mexico Public Regulation Commission to Take Action on CenturyLink’s Failure to Maintain its Copper Infrastructure
Press Release
CWA District 7 filed comments with the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission documenting how the company’s lack of investment, understaffing, and unreasonable metrics have contributed to CenturyLink’s failure to maintain its copper infrastructure and how it is jeopardizing service quality and posing significant safety hazards to utility employees and the public.