Gigapower’s Chandler Conundrum:
September 11, 2025
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Gigapower, the open access fiber network joint venture launched by AT&T and BlackRock in May 2023, is experiencing significant challenges in its phase I deployment.
Gigapower, the open access fiber network joint venture launched by AT&T and BlackRock in May 2023, is experiencing significant challenges in its phase I deployment.
AT&T has announced plans to acquire Lumen’s residential fiber internet business across 11 states in CWA District 7 and Florida. This plan will leave rural communities without reliable, high-speed internet service, stick urban communities with a risky business model, and destroy thousands of good union jobs.
District 6 has been at the bargaining table with AT&T for some time, and the negotiations have been challenging.
We need your advice to help shape the future of accessibility at CWA meetings and events! The CWA Accessibility Survey is officially open.
We are excited to announce that the application process for the CWA Joe Beirne Foundation’s scholarship for the 2025-2026 school year will be opening soon
The Union Plus Scholarship Program is gearing up to review thousands of applications from current and prospective college, university, and technical or trade school students.
We helped thousands of workers join our union so that they, too, can have a voice on the job and secure a better future for themselves and their families.
CWA released a new report yesterday which exposes the harmful and dangerous business model underpinning broadband company Gigapower, a joint venture between AT&T and investment giant BlackRock.
We come together to honor the thousands of CWA members and retirees who have served our country. Their service does not end once their uniform comes off. We honor them because we believe that our nation is worth defending and that our ideals of truth, justice, courage, and perseverance are worth fighting for.
In 1989, there was a strike at GTE (General Telephone and Electronics Corporation) in California, where one of the union members, Gerardo “Jerry” Morales, was killed by a scab (replacement worker) who ran him over with a car while he was picketing.