"The Union has known for some time now that the goal of most major Corporations in this country is to get rid of Unions. AT&T is no exception. A couple of years back, some high level Company documents were accidentally posted on an unsecured web site that detailed a plan to reduce occupational salaries and minimize the Union's influence. We are seeing that goal play out now in the greedy, unreasonable attack on the Union by AT&T at all 5 bargaining tables. They are determined to take back the hard-fought benefits achieved over the past 30 years. They have adopted a cynical and manipulative strategy to try and exploit the economic crisis to take from those who enabled them to make their $12.87 Billion in profit last year. May 1st is International Workers' Day. That holiday began in the 1880s in the United States, with the fight for an eight-hour work day. Workers were being forced to work ten, twelve, and fourteen hours a day at the time. A three-day general strike in Chicago led to the notorious Haym
