Tag: CWA

March 25, 2020

AT&T is paying a 20% bonus above the regular hourly base rate of pay to its front-line union employees, regardless of whether they are working from home or at their regular job locations. AT&T said it is paying the bonus, […]

September 3, 2019

The Communications Workers of America union last Friday released some of the terms of its tentative five-year agreement with AT&T for AT&T workers across nine Southern states. After a four-day strike by more than 20,000 AT&T technicians, installers and customer […]

June 7, 2017

AT&T and the Communications Workers of America (CWA) District 1’s bargaining team have reached a tentative agreement with AT&T East, covering nearly 200 workers in Connecticut. Similar to a new tentative agreement AT&T reached with AT&T West and DirecTV workers, […]

June 6, 2017

Verizon and the Communications Workers of America (CWA) have reached an agreement under which the telco will make a number of infrastructure upgrades to its copper infrastructure in Pennsylvania, following complaints that the telco was allegedly not performing necessary upkeep […]

June 6, 2017

AT&T has reached a tentative agreement on the terms of a new contract with the Communications Workers of America union. The agreement covers more than 17,000 workers working for AT&T’s Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell in California and Nevada, respectively. That number […]

April 12, 2017

AT&T wireline Southwest region employees represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) District 6 have approved a four-year contract, but the company is still working out a contract for its West region where tensions remain high. The new agreement, which was […]

March 16, 2017

AT&T and the Communications Workers of America (CWA) have begun the negotiation process for a new contract covering 2,000 of the telco’s internet workers nationwide. Lisa Bolton, VP of CWA telecommunications and technologies in Bedminster, New Jersey, said that similar […]

November 1, 2016

Verizon is facing new accusations from the CWA and two consumer advocacy groups which claim that the telco continues to threaten to cut off service to DSL and legacy voice customers unless they switch to fiber. The charges come as […]

October 3, 2016

Verizon is once again fighting claims made by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) that the telco is not performing necessary upkeep on its copper network, this time in Pennsylvania. CWA provided testimony to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) […]

May 2, 2016

Verizon has made another move to keep its maintenance and installation schedules on time by deploying thousands of additional employees as wireline workers represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) continue their […]