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Hundreds of AT&T Wireless Workers and Supporters Plan To Protest at iPhone 8 Launch at Apple HQ

Hundreds of AT&T wireless workers and members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) will protest outside the launch of the iPhone 8 at Apple HQ on Tuesday, we were told. "Marking the start of a critical sales period that's expected to bring in billions for the telecom giant, workers are calling out AT&T's pay cuts for its retail employees and the company's rampant outsourcing and offshoring that undermine their job security and ability to provide quality customer service," the Communications Workers of America said in a press statement. Over the years, AT&T has increasingly handed over the operations of its retail operations to third-party dealers that now represent over 60 percent of all AT&T branded stores. On top of this, AT&T retail employees allege that they are seeing their pay decline by thousands of dollars because the company manipulates their commission structure.

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  1. Fire them all! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I hate it when ungrateful employees do things like this. I say fire them all, and either hire scabs, or find some immigrants that will do the same work for less pay. We're doing them a favor by hiring them. They don't get paid to stand around and hold signs and burn the American flag. If they were participating in a #BLM protest, and were rioting, looting stores, and burning down buildings to protest the enforcement of laws, that would be OK because white culture is inherently evil and sinful, but being ungrateful like this is just reprehensible and disrespectful. Employees need to learn their place, and learn that they must obey their masters, and be happy to do so. I hope AT&T blacklists every protester that dares to stand out on the picket line. Punish them, and take away their ability to support their families. If I were working for AT&T, I would be happy to go to a picket line with a baseball bat and start bashing heads in, because I know where my loyalties are. I would cripple those Trump supporters, and while they were lying on the ground, unconscious, I would then whip out a hammer and go to town on their spines. WHACK! WHACK! WHACK! Hahahahaha!!! I would be fighting fascism by oppressing the nazi protesters.