Up to 40,000 AT&T workers walking off job over contract rights [telecom]

NEW YORK - The Communications Workers of America union says that up to

40,000 AT&T workers started walking off the job Friday over contract fights with the phone company.

The union says employees will return to work Monday.

That includes 21,000 workers on the wireless side of the company, which the union says raises the prospect that some cellphone stores could be closed this weekend in Washington, D.C., and in the 36 states affected.

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Posted 5 years ago by Bill Horne in General Telecommunications Forum

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