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IBEW Local 21 Battle Escalates at AT&T Over Good Jobs In Illinois!
When AT&T announced in late June their plan to close it?s Global Markets Customer Care Centers in Oakbrook and Chicago, IL, 137 members of IBEW Local 21 immediately faced the disti...
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08/01/06/08/30/06- REMINDER! CWA Local 4250 General Membership Meeting!
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An Open Letter to AT$T Network Engineers!
You are do bargaining unit work but are not protected under a collective bargaining unit agreement. That means AT$T can fire you at will. You already pay more for your benefits (i...
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AT$T E-Link Payroll Communication Flyer!
The attached PDF file is a copy of the first AT$T E-Link Communication Flyer that will be used over the next several months informing employees of changes they will see as a result...
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BellSouth Shareholders Approve Deal With AT&T
"BellSouth Corp. shareholders on Friday morning voted overwhelmingly to approve the company?s $67 billion merger with AT&T Inc., despite misgivings from employees about the future ...
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AT$T Cuts 75 Jobs in Saginaw, Michigan
"Telecommunications giant AT&T plans to cut 75 jobs in Saginaw Township by the end of October." Download entire article in PDF format....
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EVP Jeff Rechenbach Remarks To CWA Convention
"It makes me think that when George Bush said a few weeks back, that the best moment of his presidency was catching a 7 and a half-pound perch. That is probably was at least the mo...
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CEO-to-Worker Pay Imbalance Grows!
In 2005, the average CEO in the United States earned 262 times the pay of the average worker, the second-highest level of this ratio in the 40 years for which there are data. In 20...
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As Workers' Pensions Wither, Executives Flourish
"When Edward Whitacre, chairman and CEO of AT&T Inc., turns 65 in November, he'll be entitled to a pension of $5.4 million a year for life, plus an $18.8 million lump sum. For this...
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Senate Supports Bush "Lie and Die" Iraq Policy!
The GOP-controlled Senate on Thursday rejected Democratic calls to start withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq by year's end, as the two parties sought to define their election-year po...
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