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More Than 35,000 AT&T Workers Threaten Weekend Strike (fortune.com)
More than 35,000 AT&T workers plan to go on strike on Friday if they don't reach an agreement with the company for new contracts. From a report: The Communications Workers of America union said about 17,000 workers in AT&T's traditional wireline telephone and Internet business in Nevada and California who have been working without a contract for over a year would walk off the job on Friday afternoon for a three day strike if no deal is reached. On Tuesday, the union made a similar threat for 21,000 workers in AT&T's wireless business spread across 36 states and Washington, D.C. Workers are fed up with delays in the negotiations, Dennis Trainor, vice president of CWA District 1, said. "Now, AT&T is facing the possibility of closed stores for the first time ever," Trainor said. "Our demands are clear and have been for months: fair contract or strike. It's now in AT&T's hands to stand with workers or at 3pm Eastern Time on Friday workers will be off the job and onto picket lines across the country."
Nice to see that you're "Practically Perfect in Every Way" and have no needs in life whatsoever.
This isn't about wage; they're trying to (further) cut health benefits to workers who have faithfully
served and who have retired. An agreement is an agreement, to provide those benefits for the
remainder of their life - that was / is the deal. Yeah, Reagan wasn't a good person. I can pretty
much guarantee, in writing, that Reagan benefited from the Actor's Union when he was an actor.
People don't understand how important unions were and should be in the U.S. Child labor laws,
decent working conditions, decent salary would probably NOT exist if it weren't for unions. Wanna
see the free market in a non-union shop? Goto WalMart. Biggest example of corporate welfare bar none.
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