CWA Members Keep the Heat on AT&T

CWA members Local 3218 in Kennesaw, Ga., call for fair contracts at AT&T.

While negotiations for all AT&T contracts continue – and some progress is being reported – CWA locals have been turning up the heat on AT&T, pushing back against the company's greed.

CWAers are turning up at golf tournaments, baseball games and other AT&T-sponsored events with a message that AT&T doesn't really want the public to hear: AT&T must stop corporate greed now.

CWA Local 4321 members turned up at the AT&T sponsored hot air balloon show in Coshocton, Ohio. They distributed flyers to get our message to the public about our fight for a fair contract with AT&T.

Local 6360 members wore CWA red shirts to AT&T night at the Kansas City Royals baseball game and handbilled the crowd before the game.

CWA 4320 members are truckin' around Columbus spreading the word about AT&T's attack on the middle class. They were in Dublin, Ohio, last week, during the AT&T-sponsored  Memorial Golf Tournament, with Tiger Woods participating.

And the traveling billboard of Local 4320 was out in front at the AT&T-sponsored Memorial Golf Tournament in Dublin, Ohio, where Tiger Woods' presence made it certain that the public got the CWA message too.

In other actions:

• CWA Locals 6360, 6327 and 6450 held a big rally outside an AT&T location in Kansas City and got some picket line support from UAW members.

• Members of CWA Locals 4100, 4310, 4320 and 4900 had some time on their hands so they checked out the latest at Apple Stores.

• Members of Local 9421, along with retirees and other union supporters, held this week's weekly picket in Sacramento, with members spending their lunch hour making sure the public knows about AT&T's corporate greed.

• Members of CWA Locals 4309 and 4340, joined by lots of retirees, spent their breaks and lunch hours "Practice Picketing" outside an AT&T location in downtown Cleveland. 

For the latest, go to ga.cwa-union.org/att.