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2007 Performance Award (APA) for Represented Occupational Employees AT$T Legacy T
The 2007 APA for Represented Occupational Employees will reflect a payout of 117% based on year-end financial performance. Based on these results, the full-year equivalent award f...
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2007 Team Performance Award and COLA Increase AT$T Legacy S
We just received notice from at&t that their financial results for 2007 was 95%. Thus, the award will be $500.00 and should be received by our members no later than the first pay ...
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The Politics of Hopelessness! BY: David Sirota
"You were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart." - Barack Obama to Hillary Clinton on 1/22/08. The exchange lasted about 3 seconds - if you flipped the channe...
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Surge to Nowhere! By: Andrew J. Bacevich
"In short, the surge has done nothing to overturn former secretary of state Colin Powell's now-famous "Pottery Barn" rule: Iraq is irretrievably broken, and we own it. To say that ...
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The Glorious Future that American Unions Walked Away From!
"I can only assume that labor read too many polls and made too many political calculations. Unsure of who would win they went with the "inevitable" candidate (Clinton) instead of t...
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at$t Announces 54 Legacy T CWA Members Will Be Fired on March 21, 2008!
Download notification letter from Diane Bradley, Assistant Vice President at$t labor Relations, for list of at$t Business Units, Job Titles and Work Locations in PDF format....
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Turkish FM: Bush Launched War For Iraq Oil
"Unakitan's statements last week in Istanbul at an event sponsored by the Turkish business group MUSIAD came while Turkish President Abdullah Gul was meeting with Bush. A senior Bu...
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Bush Delivers Arms Sale to Saudi Arabia!
After dinner in the King's Palace, Bush and Abdullah walked through a large central atrium and picked up cups of Arabic coffee to take into their meetings. Sitting side by side in ...
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Stay Classy, Mike Huckabee! By: David Sirota
"As UCLA professor Mark Kleiman wrote, "If you went to Harvard, it's plain embarrassing to say you're going to vote for someone as, well, unwashed, as Huckabee."Certainly, Obama's ...
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at$t Legacy T Workers May Be Exposed To Hazardous Materials On The Job!
According to a recent OSHA complaint, Legacy T at$t employees may have been exposed to methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) at the at$t 360 Gees Mill Business Parkway work locat...
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