Close to 100,000 SBC employees plan show their displeasure with the trend of sending telco jobs overseas by going on strike this week.
The Communications Workers of America (CWA) issued a statement today declaring that union employees at SBC in 13 states will boycott work from May 21 to May 25. In addition to the strike, CWA will put more muscle behind campaigns to shift customers from SBC to fellow union carrier AT&T. The union’s biggest gripe stems from “new growth jobs” in areas such as Internet data services, Wi-Fi hotspot installation and VoIP services being sent overseas. [via The Register]
Quick comment; management isn’t selling this too well to it’s staff. It’ll turn into a staff versus management dispute and there’s only one loser as the company will still be here in years.
