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AT&T Suggests To 300K Employees To Lobby the FCC
Several readers sent in the news that AT&T's top lobbyist sent a letter to all 300,000 employees urging them to give feedback to the FCC as it gears up for rulemaking on net neutrality. He even supplied talking points approved by the PR department. The lobbyist, Jim Cicconi, suggested that employees use their personal email accounts when they weigh in with the FCC. Pro-net-neutrality group Free Press has now likened Cicconi's letter to astroturfing: "Coming from one of the company’s most senior executives, it’s hard to imagine AT&T employees thinking the memo was merely a suggestion."
What's the big deal? I also work in a regulated industry and recently our CEO sent out a memo suggesting employees write their Congressman about a proposed law that could seriously hurt our business. It doesn't matter where the urging comes from since it's not like the CEO can tell that you've followed his suggestion or not.
Do what your corporations say, or get the whip... "nigger".
Net neutrality means the end of the net as we have known it.
Net neutrality means the end of free speech on the net.
Unions are for the employees and don't have any self interests.
Ha! Unions are not in it for the employees. They are in it for the unions.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
True. The big difference between an employer trying to influence its employees politics and a union trying to influence its members politics is that an employer can fire employees, while a union can't.
They can just beat you when you leave work for the day, or have other member do unsavory things to you and your food through the day, or make veiled threats against your family.
Yeah, that's way better. And certainly never convinced anyone to quit who was against a union where they worked.
Meanwhile if you are fired for something like this, hello lawsuit.
That's kind of a large difference in terms of power influence.
I totally agree with the statement, just not who has the most power over the worker.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I've belonged to one union in my life. The big honcho for the union was the company officer's brother. They'd have a freaking cook-out at Mom's place. "Hey, Guido, my boys need a raise!" "No, Mario - look around you. The swimming pool needs work, we need to put new roof on Mom's place soon - no raise, Bro." "Hey, Antoine - my boys really need a raise, talk some sense into Guido." "No way, Mario. You know my daughter needs braces, and Junior wants a corvette. Money doesn't grow on trees, you know!" "Well, alright guys. I had to try."
Yes, today, I'm a real dedicated union man.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
In essence Unions Cripple the Companies Human Resource. If you are not a Union Player you are at a disadvantage. First any gripes you have are not as seriously put into consideration. Or if you are up for promotion the Union may place someone else.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Unions haven't been useful for the past 100 years.
In the mean time, you do what the union tells you, because if you don't you can be removed from the union... And in a non right to work state, if you aren't in the union, you can't work. Nice... I really see the difference now.
Michael J. Ryan - tracker1.info
I work over 40 hours, I cannot get preggo and I don't give a fuck about someone's sick kid.
They were useful at one point, but they are now a pain in the ass. The items you brought up all harm the business and aren't necessary.
So can someone point to a real problem that has actually occurred that "Net Neutrality" would fix?
He's got lackying in white lab coats. He's got your kids signing up for brown shirts. He's got you walking through black panthers at the voting booth. And he's got your parents getting the crap beat out of them by SEIU members on Obama's payroll while in line to vote.
So if AT&T wants to keep it's business from being confiscated by Obama by telling it's employees to help them, then good for them. I hope it works.