‘No Stripping’ Campaign Fights for Jobs at Lucent

CWA members at Alcatel Lucent — and their counterparts worldwide — are fighting back against the company's assault on their jobs and their livelihoods.

Because Alcatel, which recently purchased Lucent, is French-owned, Lucent created a shell company, Secure Lucent, to meet U.S. government demands that contract work be performed by a U.S. firm. Lucent management was transferred to Secure Lucent, but the company has refused to transfer CWA-represented technicians. Instead, these workers are being stripped of their security clearances and their work taken away.

Some 65 CWA technicians will lose their security clearances and their livelihoods if Lucent has its way. CWA represents about 2,500 Lucent workers overall.

A video message to Lucent workers from CWA President Larry Cohen and Vice President Ralph Maly, Communications and Technologies, can be viewed at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnkufTWsK3c.

Lucent's blatant actions, plus an announced 12,500 job cuts worldwide, is the focus of CWA's "No Stripping" campaign, which will draw support from the labor movement, Congress, the public, European governments and others to stop the stripping of union jobs across the country and around the world.