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ATT Strong Arms Employees
ATT | Fightin Kentuckian

Posted on 01/12/2021 7:55:02 PM PST by fightin kentuckian

ATT sent the following letter to it's employees. This is a letter telling ATT employees they will contribute the the ATT/WarnerMedia Federal PAC or else. Won't be long before they'll have them filling out absentee ballots under a managers supervision. This is bad.

To All PAC-Eligible Employees:

A critical component of our company’s efforts to be a responsible corporate citizen is actively participating in the political process. We do this in a variety of ways, including through corporate and employee political action committee (PAC) contributions consistent with our core values.

Employees on our Federal PAC Board recently convened a call to discuss actions and votes taken in last week’s Joint Session of Congress and decided to suspend contributions to members of Congress who voted to object to certification of Electoral College votes last week.

To be clear, prior to the joint session of Congress, we publicly opposed efforts to delay or overturn the certification of Electoral College votes.

As our CEO John Stankey said last week, freedom, democracy and rule of law are America’s bedrock and must never be usurped. We congratulate President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris on their Electoral College victory. There is much to be done to move the country forward.

Tim McKone Chairman – AT&T/WarnerMedia Federal PAC


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KEYWORDS: att; bigtech; corporation; election; fightinkentuckian; pac; warnermedia
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To: Fester Chugabrew

Conservatives need to set up a massive fund to enact litigation against unfair and politically biased public entities. ATT is a publicly held company and perhaps collaborative conspiratorial bias would form a basis for a law suit.


21 posted on 01/12/2021 8:10:37 PM PST by apoliticalone (SOCIAL JUSTICE is as much about justice as PATRIOT ACT is about patriotism.)
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To: buwaya

“There is nothing there that says employees have to contribute to the company PAC.

Its like contributing to a company United Way fund.”

Which version of that letter did you read?


22 posted on 01/12/2021 8:11:42 PM PST by fightin kentuckian
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To: fightin kentuckian

Can I just give to The Human Fund?


23 posted on 01/12/2021 8:12:51 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: frogjerk

Telephone poles?

I sincerely wish we still had them here, and old-fashioned land lines...

(Cell phones are horrible, compared with the reliability and sound clarity we used to receive on the old land lines.)


24 posted on 01/12/2021 8:13:39 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: fightin kentuckian
I don't see where they required employees to give.

My company gets some government contracts, has a PAC, and tries to get people to donate, but the rate is around 10% or less of employees.

I imagine that ATT will have the same amount of luck getting people to participate.

25 posted on 01/12/2021 8:14:24 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not my current tagline.)
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To: BipolarBob

Couldn’t be legal to strong arm employees for political contributions!


26 posted on 01/12/2021 8:18:20 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: fightin kentuckian

In the old days we were hit up for United Way contributions.


27 posted on 01/12/2021 8:19:06 PM PST by bubbacluck (America 180)
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To: bubbacluck

28 posted on 01/12/2021 8:19:45 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

I was just in a meeting with a group I volunteer with. This was some of the discussion. What happens when we get booted?


29 posted on 01/12/2021 8:19:53 PM PST by cyclotic (The most dangerous people are the ones that feel the most helpless)
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To: fightin kentuckian

Thanks. Friends, don’t buy AT&T/WarnerMedia products or services.


30 posted on 01/12/2021 8:20:34 PM PST by familyop
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To: fightin kentuckian

The one posted here. And filter with knowledge of what corporate PAC funds are.
An employer cannot force you to make political contributions. It can encourage them through structures like a PAC, through salary deduction, just like charitable contributions, through structures like United Way. But you have to request to implement these salary deductions.

Just like United Way, you can designate a particular beneficiary for your salary deduction contributions. What AT&T is saying here is that it will not permit contributions via their system to politicians it doesn’t like.


31 posted on 01/12/2021 8:24:06 PM PST by buwaya
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To: fightin kentuckian

Heil, ATT!


32 posted on 01/12/2021 8:26:00 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: Jamestown1630

Get fiber. Or even DSL. You can get a phone with those on most plans.


33 posted on 01/12/2021 8:26:09 PM PST by buwaya
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To: fightin kentuckian; Admin Moderator

No source.
Recommend removal of thread as baseless.
I’d have seen it.


34 posted on 01/12/2021 8:28:38 PM PST by ctdonath2 (Interesting how those so interested in workERS are so disinterested in workING.)
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To: fightin kentuckian

The PAC does exist. Here’s the evidence of that.

AT&T INC./WARNERMEDIA LLC FEDERAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AT&T/WARNERMEDIA FEDERAL PAC)
https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00109017/


35 posted on 01/12/2021 8:31:00 PM PST by familyop
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To: ctdonath2

“No source.
Recommend removal of thread as baseless.
I’d have seen it.”

What? Are you serious? Blue Falcon! This is solid info. The source is the ATT PAC. I cant give you my source. It would jeopardize their job.


36 posted on 01/12/2021 8:33:20 PM PST by fightin kentuckian
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To: fightin kentuckian

Big corporations have done that for years - PACs, United Way, etc. But you don’t have to do it. I manage to survive and get promoted without doing that sort of thing before I retired.

... or you can just contribute a $1 a paycheck and the hounding goes away.


37 posted on 01/12/2021 8:34:50 PM PST by plain talk
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To: fightin kentuckian; Jamestown1630; max americana
You want this censored? "Go ahead. Make my day." ;)

Corporate America halts donations to Republicans who voted to overturn the election
By Jazmin Goodwin, CNN Business
Updated 0224 GMT (1024 HKT) January 13, 2021
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/10/business/citigroup-bluecross-commerce-bank-pac-donations/index.html

"AT&T: AT&T (T) released a statement Monday afternoon via its Public Policy Twitter account: 'Employees on our Federal PAC Board convened a call today and decided to suspend contributions to members of Congress who voted to object to the certification of Electoral College votes last week.'

CNN's parent company, WarnerMedia, is owned by AT&T."
38 posted on 01/12/2021 8:39:38 PM PST by familyop
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To: Admin Moderator
See comment #38.

39 posted on 01/12/2021 8:41:05 PM PST by familyop
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To: fightin kentuckian

SO!? They’ve been doing it for 40 years for sure,probably longer


40 posted on 01/12/2021 8:44:24 PM PST by SanchoP ("Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." )
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