Employees Tell AT$T: Keep Your Commitment to Employees and Retirees!
AT&T employees, members of the Communications Workers of America, sent the company a strong message by voting overwhelmingly to authorize a strike if negotiations fail to produce quality contracts.The vote also sent a strong message of support to CWA bargaining teams. CWA negotiators are pressing AT&T to do its part to help the struggling economy and support the middle class, not cut benefits and jobs.
AT&T employees are very concerned about the company's attempt to cut health care benefits by shifting even more costs to employees and retirees, and about access for employees to the "jobs of the future," the new work created by changing technology. AT&T employees note that the company has been looking out for executives and investors and needs to also look out for the employees who make it successful.
AT&T is a very successful and profitable company, even in these bad economic times. AT&T posted profits of $12.9 billion last year and AT&T executives have said the company will continue to grow this year
