Call-center workers said absenteeism is down and productivity is up since they began working from home.
Don’t be fooled by AT&T’s authorized retailers, CWA members warn
December 17, 2021 by
“They are purely a creation for union-busting,” union members say. Find a list of union stores at CWA.org/ATTstore.
Union pledges fight as AT&T plans more Twin Cities store closings
February 26, 2021 by
Local job cuts at AT&T will continue this spring, when the company plans to close three more wireless retail locations in the Twin Cities suburbs, according to Communications Workers Local 7250. The union, which represents AT&T wireless sales reps, technicians and call-center employees in Minnesota, received official notification of the store closings yesterday. AT&T closed […]
Poised to strike this weekend, AT&T wireless workers seek support on picket line
May 18, 2017 by
Some 21,000 AT&T wireless workers in 36 states – including about 2,000 in Minnesota – plan to strike this weekend, a show of frustration over the company’s failure to negotiate a new contract that protects good, family-supporting jobs. The strike is set to begin at 2 p.m. tomorrow unless AT&T and the Communications Workers of America, which […]
Workers to rally outside courthouse as AT&T sues to deny their sick pay
July 13, 2015 by
AT&T is challenging a new Minnesota law allowing workers to use paid sick time to care for family members. But as the Fortune 500 telecommunications company appears before a federal judge in Minneapolis on Friday, members of the Communications Workers of America will rally outside the courthouse with a simple message: AT&T is not above […]
Gold watch? Fountain pen? For 25th anniversary, AT&T guts MN workers’ sick leave
May 13, 2015 by
Members of Local 7250 of the Communications Workers of America called a grievance strike yesterday. About 200 workers picketed outside AT&T’s offices downtown Minneapolis in support of their longest-tenured co-workers, who have seen requests for sick pay denied by the company. AT&T claims it’s not required to allow workers with 25 or more years of […]
AT&T workers in Minneapolis strike over sick pay for longest-serving employees
May 12, 2015 by
Workers in AT&T’s credit collections department walked off the job in Minneapolis this afternoon, joining a “grievance strike” to demand AT&T stop denying sick pay to its longest-serving employees. About 200 of the department’s 243 workers, members of Local 7250 of the Communications Workers of America, joined picketing outside AT&T’s offices at 9th Street and […]
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