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Thursday, 16 June 2011 |
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With AT&T pushing through their planned merger with T-Mobile with the FCC, SEC, and numerous Federal and State agencies, we were quite surprised to see AT&T declaring a lay-off. Especially when the company had insinuated the merger would not affect the existing work force. It is our opinion that they are looking for ways to pay for this merger so they are taking their usual path to increasing revenue, lay-offs.
The following are the total lay-off numbers throughout AT&T core contracts 6/15/11: AT&T Corp.
District 1 (Northeast Region)……15
District 3 (Southeast Region)…..190
District 4 (Midwest Region)…….90
District 6 (Southwest Region)….245
District 9 (West Region)……….212
Legacy T (National)……………..90
Total AT&T (Core Contracts) 842 We all know how under staffed the work force is and how duties and responsibilities are added to our daily work loads. You only have to crunch the numbers, more work and less employees, where is the excess work going? Most likely it’s headed overseas. Even in these dismal economic times where there are so few available jobs it’s still a race to the bottom and if it can be outsourced here or abroad then its part of their business plan. T-Mobile look out, you’re next. The Struggle Continues. Roy Hegenbart
President
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