First of all, your bargaining team would like to thank you for your decisive YES vote authorizing a strike if AT&T continues on the road it is going down. With less than two weeks until expiration, there is going to have to be a lot of progress for us to reach an agreement by expiration. Now that we have sent them that message, we have to step up other activities. We need to increase mobilization on the job. We have to let every customer, large and small, know that AT&T is being irresponsible to them by forcing issues that could lead to a strike. AT&T is a financially successful company that is not feeling the devastating effects of this financial crisis. By trying to push massive health care costs onto its employees, it is putting customers - some of whom might be in real financial difficulty - at risk of jeopardizing their telecommunications services. Download entire report in PDF format.
