Is AT&T ethical?

AT&T plans to continue providing financial support to employees who have to travel for abortion care, the company told Insider.

Match Group and AT&T have donated to anti-abortion politics, both to fund abortion travel

Last month, shareholders targeted AT&T because of its donations to lawmakers who enacted voting restrictions.

After passage of that law and another restrictive voting bill, which requires proof of residency, AT&T donated more than $244,000 to legislators who supported the bills and to Abbott, who signed them into law, according to another Accountable.US report released last month.

Yet, in the 2020 cycle, AT&T has donated $250,000 to the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA).

But since 2020, AT&T has donated more than $86,000 to Florida politicians behind the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, including $80,000 to Governor Ron DeSantis (R).

In early June, AT&T signed a letter, organized by the Human Rights Campaign, opposing "bills being introduced in state houses across the country that single out LGBTQ individuals - many specifically targeting transgender youth - for exclusion or differential treatment." Days later, AT&T's corporate PAC donated $5,000 to Ivey, who is targeting LGBTQ youth with discriminatory legislation.

Since 2019, AT&T has donated almost $1.1 million to anti-LGBTQ members of Congress who were rated "zero" by the Human Rights Campaign. The company also donated to the sponsors of anti-trans legislation in Arkansas ($12,950), Tennessee ($4,000), North Carolina ($5,000), Texas ($22,500), and Florida ($17,500).

AT&T has donated at least $1,396,650 to anti-LGBTQ legislators since last year

AT&T has donated at least $1,269,650 to anti-LGBTQ politicians since 2022

Watchdog says AT&T gave over $100K to Abbott, GOP lawmakers after vowing to support voting rights

AT&T and Comcast donated thousands to those opposed to LGBTQ+ rights in the South.

Public Citizen: Coca-Cola, AT&T gave nearly $1M to legislators backing voting restrictions

The Keep Your Pride campaign, a project of Corporate Accountability Action, says AT&T, Anheuser-Busch, The Coca-Cola Company, General Motors, and NBCUniversal have contributed to lawmakers who support discriminatory, anti-trans legislation.

Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa), one of the lawmakers featured in the new report, has received campaign donations from corporate PACs representing 3M, Amazon, Walmart, AT&T, and other companies that collectively received billions of dollars in tax breaks from the Republican law, which restored a provision allowing businesses to immediately write off new investments.

In AT&T’s 2020 Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Report, CEO John Stankey said one of the company’s “core values” was “gender equity and the empowerment of women.” But, from 2018 to 2021, AT&T donated $301,000 to the sponsors of Texas’ draconian abortion ban.

But between January 2022 and June 2023, AT&T donated at least $1,396,650 to anti-LGBTQ legislators.

Telecom giant AT&T was the most prolific, donating more than $800,000 since 2015 to authors of proposed restrictions, co-sponsors of such measures or those who voted in favor of the bills, the report found.

Last month, shareholders targeted AT&T because of its donations to lawmakers who enacted voting restrictions.

After passage of that law and another restrictive voting bill, which requires proof of residency, AT&T donated more than $244,000 to legislators who supported the bills and to Abbott, who signed them into law, according to another Accountable.US report released last month.

A new report finds that companies like Comcast/NBCUniversal and AT&T have donated millions to lawmakers who oppose LGBTQ+ equality.

On January 31, 2022, AT&T's PAC donated a total of $67,000 to 16 Republicans who voted to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

(KWCH) - AT&T awarded $52,000 to the Wichita Police and Fire Foundation on Monday.

Wichita Police and Fire Foundation receives large donation from AT&T

• AT&T’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion team provides diverse talent with tools, opportunities and resources focused on exposure to senior leaders.

AT&T is a National Corporate Founder of HRC's foundation with a flawless score of 100 on the corporate equality index, and the group rated it as one of the best places to work for LGBTQ equality in 2021.

AT&T in March stopped participating in external surveys such as the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index, no longer encourages employees to wear pins with their preferred pronouns and canceled a series of LGBTQ+ events. It also halted DEI training to boost leadership development, made its chief DEI officer vice president of culture and inclusion and opened up AT&T employee scholarships to everyone, not just certain demographic groups.

Herring testified that he was offered $250 million from AT&T in 2019.

WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey wrote in a memo to employees on March 20 that the conglomerate will be hiring a new executive who “will help ensure our business encourages and values diverse perspectives, supports the unique voices of the talent we work with, and is reflected in the world-class content we create.”

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The reported contributions from AT&T come after CEO John Stankey said in April amid a wave of voting restrictions being proposed in GOP legislatures that the company believes “the right to vote is sacred and we support voting laws that make it easier for more Americans to vote in free, fair and secure elections.”