As you know, the Company exclusively determines lay-off announcements and the Union has no input for affected GCA’s, titles, or numbers. The company also reserves the right to schedule, change, and cancel lay-off announcements and numbers. The Union has not been notified of a confirmation of a lay-off announcement at this time. If and/or when the company informs the Union of a pending lay-off, we will share this information with our Members’.

We have pointed out to the company at numerous meetings that that they are operating at a critically low level of occupational personnel to meet their productivity and performance requirements. We all know how overloaded the bargaining unit workforce is and it was just a matter of time before AT&T’s customers would feel the crunch. This has not halted AT&T’s past short-term profit driven decisions to reduce employee levels in the Bargaining Unit.

As AT&T continues to consolidate its mergers, we will have to wait and see what effect this will have on the Bargaining Unit across the company. We hope the company will temper their short-term profit driven strategy and decide to keep employing what is left of a highly qualified and dedicated workforce at Legacy T. This decision will ensure that AT&T’s customer base will be retained and it will create opportunities to grow its base due to the quality of service the Bargaining Unit provides each and every day of the year.

Now that would be long-term strategy that would work.

In unity,

Roy Hegenbart
President
Local 3250