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AT&T Trying To Worm Out Of Job Agreement? |
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Monday, 31 March 2008 |
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Again AT&T tries to worm out of the agreements made to the Union and the American worker. Now AT&T CEO Randall Stevenson blames the American education system for not producing qualified candidates to do telecommunications work. If that was so, why does the American education system attract tens of thousands of foreign students each year?
CEO Stevenson does not mention that the IT, Call Center, and Tech jobs they are offering pay thousands of dollars below what the standard rate is, that’s why they were off-shored in the first place. It’s all about the race to the bottom of the wage scale and diverting attention away from their greed. What they want to pay is Bangalore, India wages and blame it on the education system. Mr. Stevenson seems to be living in “OZ”, so pay no attention to the greed behind the curtain. Implying that America has a 50% drop out rate in my opinion is completely ludicrous and smells of racism. He should explain why the U-verse jobs for Techs start at the lowest wages in the industry. Try and raise a Family on these sub-standard wages. I hope you have room in your basement, because that’s all your child will be able to afford if they take one of these jobs. Did I mention that none of these jobs provide pension benefits? Certainly Mr. Stevenson will not have to force his children into the basement on his salary and benefits. I think AT&T has insulted our intelligence enough, they need to be honest and come clean, AT&T’s only concern is the short term profit they can pull out of their customers on the backs of their employees. In unity, Roy Hegenbart
President
Local 3250 Hard to find skilled US workers: AT&T CEO Reuters The head of the top US phone company AT&T Inc said on Wednesday it was having trouble finding enough skilled workers to fill all the 5,000 customer service jobs it promised to return to the United States from India. "We're having trouble finding the numbers that we need with the skills that are required to do these jobs," AT&T Chief Executive Randall Stephenson told a business group in San Antonio, where the company's headquarters is located. So far, only around 1,400 jobs have been returned to the United States of 5,000, a target it set in 2006, the company said, adding that it maintains the target. Stephenson said he is especially distressed that in some communities and among certain groups, the high school drop out rate is as high as 50 percent. The United States needed to make solving that problem a priority, he said. "If I had a business that half the product we turned out was defective or you couldn't put into the marketplace, I would shut that business down," he said. Gone are the days, he said, when AT&T and other US Companies had to hire locally. "We're able to do new product engineering in Bangalore as easily as we're able to do it in Austin, Texas," he said, referring to the Indian city where many international Companies have outsourced technical and customer support workers. "I know you don't like hearing that, but that's the way it is." |
