Union gives SBC final strike notice

[dArKeR]

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."

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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.

[bleedingheart]

1. the illiterate immigrants (like my grandfather) who started the unions

here in this country are smarter than a lot of people today....

as to the christian statement....all I have to ask is..."if someone says they are a christian but then makes you work for less...is that christian behavior?"

[Don_G]

2. SBC Is Looking At Wall Street's Record Profits

And trying to match the numbers anyway they can while supporting Dimbo.

Guess who gets the shaft in the process...

[BayCityProgressive]

3. I really really

hope this is settled. I just was hired in there and I really need to start my new job lol. I can understand a higher copay for healthcare because insurance companies have raised prices by like 25% and gouged employers even more. The first year wage freeze is bullshit though.

[Bridget Burke]

4. The insurance companies own Governor Perry....

Which is why they're free to keep raising their rates. So the employers pass on the gouging.

Any executive pay freezes?