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Lay-Offs=Poor Management & Greed |
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Tuesday, 29 April 2008 |
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AT&T Legacy T may be declaring a bargaining unit lay-off on May 12, 2008. Although this has not been confirmed at this time, the company in the past has announced occupational lay-offs for the second quarter in May.
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’. AT&T earnings have been strong and the company is performing up to expectations. The Legacy T portion of the company has been operating at below what the Union considers adequate force levels due to past lay-offs. This has not halted AT&T’s past short-term profit driven decisions to reduce employee levels in the Bargaining Unit. As AT&T attempts 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 there is strength. Roy Hegenbart
President
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