You may be asked to let yourself be shadowed by a consultant contractor. What are they up to? Easy, it’s another way to assist the company in their lay-off plans. They pay to bring in a consultant to justify what they planned to do anyway, lay-off employees.  Under the cloak of the financial crisis, what better way to fool the employees into thinking we are not working hard enough. Hire a consultant contractor that does not know what we do so they can measure and rate us. The recession has given a fresh burst to the fraudulent management consultancy industry, as corporations beg to be told where to apply the leeches to suck the blood out of the workforce. Over 110 years in the telecom business and the Company uses consultants to find out what our jobs are. This is a scam to kick us to the curb.

CWA members' solidarity during 18 long months of bargaining paid off Wednesday night in Connecticut when Local 1298 reached a tentative agreement with AT&T that includes job protection language the company had refused to include earlier.