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Telecom Members Rally for Jobs
CWA members are fighting back against Verizon, SBC Communications and other telecom companies that are cutting jobs despite good profits and high executive compensation.
In San Antonio, Tex. this week, more than 500 workers rallied outside SBC's corporate headquarters to protest the company's announced job cuts and its strategy of hiring contractors to do the work of permanent employees. An airplane trailed a banner calling on SBC to "Stop the Layoffs" as union members cheered and chanted against the job cuts.
CWA members traveled from Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas to send SBC the message that these job cuts are harming workers and the quality service customers expect from SBC, reported District 6 Vice President Andy Milburn. Milburn addressed the rally along with CWA Vice President Emeritus T.O. Moses, who headed CWA's telecommunications unit before his retirement this year.
Milburn called the rally "the beginning of a campaign to save our jobs" and to pressure SBC to cut down on excessive subcontracting. SBC has hired at least 17,000 contract workers who perform many of the same jobs as unionized workers, he said.
Also, in Boston this week, hundreds of workers from CWA and the IBEW rallied outside Verizon's headquarters in response to the company's proposed job cuts that could furlough nearly 1,000 workers in the New England area and 3,000 more in New York and the mid-Atlantic.
CWA District 1 Vice President Larry Mancino put Verizon on notice that CWA members were prepared to stand tough and fight for their jobs. CWA members across Verizon territory have been mobilizing against the company's announced job cutbacks, stressing that the cuts will harm quality service and result in growing customer complaints.
In San Antonio, Tex. this week, more than 500 workers rallied outside SBC's corporate headquarters to protest the company's announced job cuts and its strategy of hiring contractors to do the work of permanent employees. An airplane trailed a banner calling on SBC to "Stop the Layoffs" as union members cheered and chanted against the job cuts.
CWA members traveled from Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas to send SBC the message that these job cuts are harming workers and the quality service customers expect from SBC, reported District 6 Vice President Andy Milburn. Milburn addressed the rally along with CWA Vice President Emeritus T.O. Moses, who headed CWA's telecommunications unit before his retirement this year.
Milburn called the rally "the beginning of a campaign to save our jobs" and to pressure SBC to cut down on excessive subcontracting. SBC has hired at least 17,000 contract workers who perform many of the same jobs as unionized workers, he said.
Also, in Boston this week, hundreds of workers from CWA and the IBEW rallied outside Verizon's headquarters in response to the company's proposed job cuts that could furlough nearly 1,000 workers in the New England area and 3,000 more in New York and the mid-Atlantic.
CWA District 1 Vice President Larry Mancino put Verizon on notice that CWA members were prepared to stand tough and fight for their jobs. CWA members across Verizon territory have been mobilizing against the company's announced job cutbacks, stressing that the cuts will harm quality service and result in growing customer complaints.