This is our member Rebecca Curtis’s response to a manager on
I and my co-workers can afford to walk – if we don’t we will have nothing to come back to. What we are fighting for ultimately is also our manager’s hope – If our jobs go to non-employees in Ottawa, Canada then it is obvious that manager’s jobs will go too.(yes, if you look up the reps that call us for help you’ll see: non-employee Missouri, non-employee Ottawa, non-employee Texas . . .)
Please let me know what we have if we “cross the line” because I am positive that puts my job on the line. I’d rather gamble on the leverage of a CWA strike than agree with:
1)Taking away health benefits from the fixed income retirees (These are the folks who built this company- wire by wire, call by call-remember? They are in their 60’s,70’s,80’s+ — they are the ones who don’t have enough years left to recover from the stock market meltdown.)
2)Transferring “surplus” technicians to non-benefit, no pension, low wage prem techs.
3) Requiring sales quotas at the call centers – A perfect recipe for slamming, cramming and interesting enough ends up being expensive for AT&T as they deal with huge turnover, and very unhappy customers.
AT&T is profitable because of the foundation of wire line – I am wire line, yes and I am Uverse, wireless and high speed internet – These are not a declining portion of the company.
We are all involved, as we should be, in creating the profit for AT&T. As I sell Uverse, DSL and wireless stacked with or without a pots line I know I am simply dealing with the evolved technology of the landline that began AT&T in the late 1800’s. – When the original party line went to private in-home numbers, When dialing a crank phone went to a cordless handset, When dialup when to DSL – It didn’t stop being AT&T – It didn’t stop being communications – It didn’t stop being your job or my job. There are no isolated “land line” folks. Thankfully we all still have a part in the ever changing AT&T. It can be exciting, it can be exhausting but we are all the profitable AT&T.
What CWA is simply a collective, effective balance for an ever evolving greed at the corporate-level. It is me, it is my co-worker.
It is a voice that disagrees with a management that says “there aren’t enough educated Americans to fill AT&T jobs”. -A company that says “Sunday is just another day”. -A management that mistakenly thinks that they alone have created the gains of this company.
Our jobs are on the line so we will not cross the line.
We are all involved, as we should be, in creating the profit for AT&T. As I sell Uverse, DSL and wireless stacked with or without a pots line I know I am simply dealing with the evolved technology of the landline that began AT&T in the late 1800’s. – When the original party line went to private in-home numbers, When dialing a crank phone went to a cordless handset, When dialup when to DSL – It didn’t stop being AT&T – It didn’t stop being communications – It didn’t stop being your job or my job. There are no isolated “land line” folks. Thankfully we all still have a part in the ever changing AT&T. It can be exciting, it can be exhausting but we are all the profitable AT&T.
What CWA is simply a collective, effective balance for an ever evolving greed at the corporate-level. It is me, it is my co-worker.
It is a voice that disagrees with a management that says “there aren’t enough educated Americans to fill AT&T jobs”. -A company that says “Sunday is just another day”. -A management that mistakenly thinks that they alone have created the gains of this company.
Our jobs are on the line so we will not cross the line.
