Three days after a 72-hour contract extension expired for members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) employed throughout the US southeast at DirecTV, a subsidiary of the multinational telecommunications company AT&T, the union announced a new tentative agreement (TA) Friday. The deal was reached one week after the union concluded a new four-year TA with another AT&T subsidiary, AT&T Mobility.
The CWA is also currently in negotiations with telecommunications company Liberty Latin America for its members in Puerto Rico, and jointly with the Teamsters union for passenger service agents at American Airlines.
The contract talks with AT&T encompass CWA’s District 3, which includes its locals in the US southeast. According to District 3’s website, collectively this arm of the CWA includes hundreds of locals with a membership of over 70,000. Nationwide, the CWA “represents more than 150,000 workers at AT&T, including 45,000 at AT&T Mobility nationwide; 9,000 at DIRECTV and 2,000 at AT&T Internet.”
The previous four-year agreement for AT&T Mobility workers (“Mobility Black”) expired in February 2022, but management was given a one-year extension. The recent contract talks between the union and both AT&T Mobility and DirecTV began in January.
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