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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Sep 23, 2020, 09:13 PM Sep 2020

Midwestern politicians send AT&T letters asking it to suspend job cuts and off-shoring of jobs

Numerous politicians across Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and Indiana released letters on Wednesday asking AT&T to suspend its job cuts in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

A press release from the Communications Workers of America (CWA) said the letters, which were from more than 50 elected officials, to AT&T CEO John Stankey also requested that AT&T stop off-shoring jobs.

Since receiving $21 billion from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, AT&T has steadily cut jobs each quarter, despite promises to create 7,000 new jobs, CWA said in its release. Overall, AT&T has eliminated over 40,000 jobs, including more than 3,500 CWA-represented positions in Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Indiana.

In their letters to Stankey, United States representatives Rashida Tlaib (D) and Andy Levin (D) of Michigan, Wisconsin senator Chris Larson (D), and the mayor of Youngstown, Ohio, Jamael Tito Brown (D), along with other government officials, laid out a set of recommendations for AT&T:

https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/midwestern-politicians-send-at-t-letters-asking-it-to-suspend-job-cuts-and-off-shoring-jobs?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWW1SaU16QXhaR0U1WmpBMCIsInQiOiJUT3BcL1FacUpuWmF2aHBvalhtTllhWlZ5VjdIWlY5STFScVZiZ0pYakJFR1FMcG9SNkoycm9keE1PYStad0o2OXBzUm1hU3JLUXQwXC80K213KzdZK3F0YXJaVm1nK3I4M0NrS2JRS2lreU9HbHluNWE4U1wvNCszaUFCejdKRFB5SCJ9&mrkid=8465628

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Midwestern politicians send AT&T letters asking it to suspend job cuts and off-shoring of jobs (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2020 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author XanaDUer2 Sep 2020 #1
Disgusting XanaDUer2 Sep 2020 #2
Are there any republicans that mind job losses despite all the gov't largess to supposedly increase keithbvadu2 Sep 2020 #3
I hope you're continuing to feel pretty well!❤ Karadeniz Sep 2020 #4

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keithbvadu2

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3. Are there any republicans that mind job losses despite all the gov't largess to supposedly increase
Wed Sep 23, 2020, 09:37 PM
Sep 2020

Are there any republicans that mind job losses despite all the gov't largess to supposedly increase jobs?

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