Posted on 08/19/2024 12:58:45 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Weeks after their contract expired, thousands of workers are going on strike in hopes of better pay and benefits.
Nearly 17,000 AT&T workers are on strike as their union, the Communication Workers of America, accused the company of "unfair labor practices."
The 17,000 workers are in the AT&T Southeast region and serve the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Striking employees include technicians, customer service representatives, and others who install, maintain, and support AT&T’s residential and business wireline telecommunications network, the union said.
The Communication Workers of America filed a grievance with the National Labor Relations Board. The union claims that AT&T is not "sending representatives to the bargaining table with the authority to make decisions."
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Media bias also covers what the press ignores.
I know someone who works for ATT and this is really messing with business. There are a lot of companies and customers that are affected by this strike. The last time there was a strike they gave employees a $.40 an hour raise.
Pikers, they need the school unions to negotiate, they usually 3-4 bucks per hour increases.
Lots of automation since the last long strike in 1983 in the southeast. I’m surprised AT&T still has union employees.
Wonder what would happen if, say, customers went on strike and refused to pay their bills.
AT&T still exists?
THEY-—or one of their divisions has been my phone/service supplier since 1958.
whatever is happening is killing my picture quality. looks like a bad psychedelic dream from the late 60s.
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