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CWA Members Push AT&T for Work from Home after Call Center COVID-19 Outbreak
News
November 5, 2020
Despite 30 employees at an AT&T call center in Tustin, Calif. testing positive for COVID-19 and a probable fatality from the disease, AT&T has not agreed to allow all employees at the center to work from home.
CWAers Rally Around Joe Biden's Plan to Push Companies to Build Out Broadband with Union Workers
News
October 29, 2020
On Wednesday, CWA members participated in a town hall centered around the need for federal funding for broadband.
Communications Workers of America and Michigan Leaders Rally With Build Back Better Michigan Tour in Support of Biden’s Broadband Initiatives
Press Release
Communications Workers of America President Chris Shelton and CWA members joined Senator Gary Peters (D-Mich) and Congressmen Dan Kildee (MI-05) and Andy Levin (MI-09) for a Biden campaign virtual rally to highlight how the Vice President’s plan to invest in broadband infrastructure would bring jobs to Michigan's communities, support education, empower workers, and close the digital divide.
AT&T’s DSL Shutoff Will Leave Thousands of Consumers Without a Broadband Option
News
October 15, 2020
AT&T recently announced that it will discontinue DSL sales nationally and disconnect 160,000 DSL customers, only some of whom have access to another wireline service from AT&T.
CWA Exposes AT&T's Failures on Broadband and Good Jobs
News
October 8, 2020
New reports that expose how AT&T has left communities without access to next-generation fiber networks and eliminated good jobs received wide media and political attention this week.