Locals Step Up Mobilizing at AT&T Nationwide

From Connecticut to California, CWA locals are mobilizing and planning more events to make sure that AT&T management gets the message: we're standing strong for fair contracts.

Local 4321 got the corporate greed message across with this billboard outside Zanesville, Ohio.

CWA Local 4321 has put up what's probably the biggest (see photo) lit billboard in Ohio, near the busiest intersection in the southeastern section of the state. In Columbus, dozens of members from Local 4320 held a family picnic day where family members joined workers in informational picketing in front of an AT&T garage.

In Toledo, members of CWA Local 4319 were joined by hundreds of UAW and other union workers, community activists and Jobs with Justice members at a downtown rally.

CWAers from Local 4320 and their family members picketed for a fair contract outside an AT&T garage in Columbus, Ohio.

CWA District 4 Vice President Seth Rosen and state officers from the UAW and the AFL-CIO were among the key speakers.

Locals in District 6 launched a lobbying campaign to get members of Congress and state representatives to support their fight for a fair contract. CWA District 6 Vice President Andy Milburn and CWA Executive Vice President Annie Hill met with the bargaining committee this week.

In District 9, informational picketing is strong across California, with members of Local 9417 on the line in Stockton, Local 9415 demonstrating in Pleasanton, and members of Local 9421 in Sacramento hitting AT&T on its corporate greed.

This Saturday, Local 1298 will hold a giant rally at the New Haven Green; members of Locals 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1106, 1107, 1301, and 1400 will be on hand.

For more information and updates on mobilization, go to ga.cwa-union.org/att.