CWA and AT&T enter federal mediation as strike drags on

As the Communications Workers of America strike against AT&T Southeast continues into its sixth day, reports of service outages and delays are mounting across the Southeast.

CWA and AT&T have entered into federal mediation and had their first meeting with the mediator this morning.

In Eads, Tenn. a striking worker was injured on the picket line by a vehicle driven by a contractor.

Working families across the Southeast have turned out to support the striking workers, walking the picket lines and providing food and supplies. In a show of solidarity, Teamsters are refusing to cross picket lines to deliver packages to AT&T locations.

AT&T technicians, customer service representatives, and others who install, maintain, and support AT&T's residential and business wireline telecommunications network in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee walked off the job at 3 p.m. ET on Friday, August 16, in response to AT&T's failure to bargain in good faith. Negotiators have been at work bargaining a new contract since late June. The current contract between CWA and AT&T Southeast expired on August 3.

Read the full press release here.

Communications Workers of America