AT&T ran away with billions of dollars [telecom]

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AT&T Midwest, AT&T Legacy T and AT&T Southeast

As many Americans with stagnant paychecks found that they were receiving smaller refunds on Tax Day and wondered if they would even have a job a year from now, massive corporations like AT&T ran away with billions of dollars in tax cuts, cut jobs, failed to provide promised wage increases, and continued to send jobs overseas.

Over the weekend, AT&T Midwest and Legacy T workers reached the one-year anniversary of their contract expiring and the company continues to stonewall workers at the bargaining table, while CWA members at AT&T Southeast are gearing up for the start of their own negotiations with the company this year. To put pressure on AT&T, CWAers across the country rallied to draw attention to our contract fight and to push Congress to hold corporations accountable for their broken tax cut promises.

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Posted 5 years ago by Bill Horne in General Telecommunications Forum

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