100,000 employees set to walk off the job
The Associated Press
Updated: 8:16 a.m. ET May 19, 2004
SAN ANTONIO - The union representing more than 100,000 employees of SBC Communications Inc. says workers for the nation's No. 2 local-phone provider are prepared to walk off the job over wages and health care costs.
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Following a 24-hour strike notice by Communications Workers of America, SBC workers could strike as soon as Wednesday afternoon. The union has criticized the for proposing a first-year wage freeze while shifting more health care costs in negotiations for a new contract.
A strike would likely affect local phone service in SBC's 13-state coverage area, which includes Texas, California, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Connecticut.
"SBC wants it both ways _ gouging our workers on health costs while also demanding a first-year base wage freeze to fatten its profits," CWA President Morton Bahr said late Tuesday in a statement on the union's Web site. "That amounts to pure greed."
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5012638/I don't know why Americans can truely be a 'United We Stand' community of citizens. I wish ALL workers in America would walk off their jobs in a general strike for;
1. workers who are being abused, whether they're union or not.
2. until Bush resigns.
I heard a caller on the O'Franken say he's a Christian and didn't want America to become a Europe. (during a Robert Reich interview.) I wonder what this caller meant? Working class people sticking together to prevent from being raped by the Corporate Elite CEOs who make $30 million a year for doing not much of anything while the real workers in the corporations are thrown to the streets.