{"id":24640,"date":"2024-08-23T16:15:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T14:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniglobalunion.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=24640"},"modified":"2024-08-23T16:17:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T14:17:11","slug":"standing-with-17000-telecoms-workers-striking-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/uniglobalunion.org\/news\/standing-with-17000-telecoms-workers-striking-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing with 17,000 telecoms workers striking in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif\">Over 17,000 Communications Workers of America (CWA) employed by telecoms giant AT&amp;T are striking in protest of unfair labour practices committed by management during negotiations of a new collective bargaining agreement.<\/span><\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif\">The strike began on 16 August, and on CWA and AT&amp;T have entered into mediation with the U.S. federal government this week. The union says the company is not bargaining in good faith among other unlawful practices.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif\">\u201cWe are hopeful that mediation might lead us to the agreement our members deserve,\u201d wrote the CWA bargaining team in a statement sent to striking CWA members.<\/span><\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif\">This sentiment was echoed by said\u00a0<b>Eddie Maresca, President of CWA Local 3603 in Charlotte, N.C.<\/b>, who said: \u201cWe\u2019re more than happy to go back to work and more than happy to serve the customers like we do every other day of the year, but until AT&amp;T starts acting right, we\u2019re going to be here on the picket line because they&#8217;re bargaining in bad faith.\u201d<\/span><\/span>\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_24643\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24643\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/action.cwa.org\/petitions\/support-striking-workers-at-att-southeast\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24643 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/uniglobalunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/cwa-solidarity-300x266.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uniglobalunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/cwa-solidarity-300x266.png 300w, https:\/\/uniglobalunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/cwa-solidarity-768x681.png 768w, https:\/\/uniglobalunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/cwa-solidarity-226x200.png 226w, https:\/\/uniglobalunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/cwa-solidarity-452x401.png 452w, https:\/\/uniglobalunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/cwa-solidarity.png 853w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/action.cwa.org\/petitions\/support-striking-workers-at-att-southeast\/\"><strong><em>Show support by signing workers&#8217; petition.<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif\">Since the launch of the strike, which covers a number of states in the U.S. Southeast, CWA has raised concern about unsafe conditions as the company has \u201cbeen sending undertrained managers and contractors to perform highly technical work during the strike,\u201d according to\u00a0<b>Richard Honeycutt,<\/b>\u00a0<b>Vice President of CWA District 3 in the Southeast.<\/b><\/span><\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif\">\u201cOur members want to be on the job, providing the quality service that our customers deserve,\u201d\u00a0<b>Honeycutt<\/b>\u00a0continued \u201cAT&amp;T needs to do the right thing and start negotiating with us in good faith.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif\">UNI is sending support to our union siblings in the United States.<\/span><\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif\">\u201cAT&amp;T must stop its stalling and start meaningful negotiations,\u201d said\u00a0<b>UNI Global Union General Secretary Christy Hoffman<\/b>. \u201cAT&amp;T workers are essential to keeping communities connected, and the company should recognize their contributions by bargaining in good\u00a0faith. We are with them in solidarity, 100 per cent.\u201d<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unions from around the world are standing with over 17,000 Communications Workers of America (CWA) employed by telecoms giant AT&amp;T who are on strike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":24641,"template":"","categories":[163],"global-issues":[],"sectors":[12],"cross-sector-groups":[],"workers-rights":[],"regions":[86],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-24640","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-tag","sectors-ict-related-services","regions-uni-americas"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Standing with 17,000 telecoms workers striking in the U.S.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UNI is in full solidarity with17,000 Communications Workers of America (CWA) employed by telecoms giant AT&amp;T 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