CWA Says It Won’t Agree To Undermine Middle Class Jobs At AT&T ($12.9 billion profit last year)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/10924

By Doug Cunningham

The Communications Workers of America (CWA) continues to try to get a fair contract at AT&T, but the possibility of a strike is still very real. AT&T is demanding massive cost-shifting onto workers. CWA Midwest District 4 Vice President Seth Rosen says the union is in no mood to destroy middle class jobs at a company that made $12.9 billion profit last year.

: “CWA is interested in working out reasonable solutions on a range of issues –including health care, including retirement, including wages. We have done that for years with this company. What we are not willing to do is agree to massive cost-shiftings that undermines the standards of living of middle class jobs. Not just because our members don’t want to be pushed out of the middle class and into poverty, but more importantly America needs middle class jobs.”

Rosen says keeping and creating more middle class jobs is how America gets out of this recession and into recovery.



My wife Marta was CWA for 18 years. We stayed out the 3 week strike of 83. It was a down economy then too. My sister was out 3 times before she retired.

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1. My sister in law is a member of management at AT&T.

35 years with the company.

I sincerely hope they are able to reach an amicable agreement and avert a strike, if for no other reason than that my SIL is in poor health and fears working the 12 hour shifts 6 days a week if it happens.