AT&T Says It Needs Deadline Extension to Pursue CWA Settlement Talks

AT&T needs another four-week deadline extension to Dec. 16 to answer the Sept. 19 Communications Workers of America complaint to compel arbitration for DirecTV employees who CWA alleges were “unjustly” terminated after AT&T’s DirecTV spinoff (see 2210090002), said AT&T's unopposed motion Tuesday (docket 1:22-cv-00954) at the U.S. District Court for Western Texas in Austin. AT&T and the CWA “are actively engaged in ongoing negotiations for the resolution of this matter,” said the motion. “Additional time is needed and warranted so that the parties may focus on achieving a settlement and have sufficient time to fully exhaust those settlement efforts, which would moot the need for any responsive pleading."