https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresaghilarducci/2024/04/13/cwa-union-fights-back-against-so-called-pension-de-risking/ AT&T, Verizon and others are making a lot of money by de-risking their liabilities. The CWA Union is fighting the offloading of... — read more 

Here is an article on 5G health effects. If the public acts on it, it could have a large effect on the income and ATT dividend. That income is what is keeping ATT afloat and away from bankruptcy. There would be some serious layoffs worse than... — read more 

I went "no" down the line for the BOD and against everything they "suggested". Of course I know my one vote won't matter but it still felt good to do.

I’m feeling sick, how many days can I take off, paid? Work to rule, be ready for mobilization at any moment.

Is Stankey at the Masters living it up this week?

Has anyone else heard anything?

I know it’s really hard right now to stay positive in such a tumultuous and volatile workplace. If you haven’t been affected by surpluses yet I’m sure everyone here knows someone who has. Just know when one door closes, another one opens. You will... — read more 

Any chance AT&T can pull it together, so we stop losing money?

There is no mention from the union, protecting the transfer of work from other titles, except core technicians. Service reps have had their work transfered to lowered paid contractors, cell phone representatives and even management. This is an... — read more 

The board recommends that you vote for them again and that you vote to approve the executive compensation. The board also recommends that you vote AGAINST an independent chairman and a report on respecting workforce civil liberties. How are you... — read more 

https://twitter.com/MacroEdgeRes/status/1778156338167624090 AT&T makes more great financial decisions. In the Tweet above, AT&T bought the St. Louis tower for $205 million in ‘06. They just sold it for $3.55 million. Typical T. Buy high, sell low. — read more 

Got laid off because I couldn’t report to South Akard. T needed me to prove to the tax man in DFW that they holding up our side of the bargain. DFW gives at a $25M tax cut, in return T makes employees go to South Akard. Only one problem. I live in... — read more 

The position of a Platinum seller is a joke when you really think about it. You are assigned to a set of customers that only you can sell to however others still sell to and there’s nothing you can do about it. Also you can only sell into the pre... — read more 

Besides RTO/Wave 2 layoffs of course.

it really doesn’t matter which one of these you listen to and any given Townhall, Stanley, McElfresh, Sambar, Zeiler, Legg etc. They all repeatedly come across as arrogant and tone deaf. They have no idea the stress the rank and file employees have... — read more 

I was asked to track my total work time and commute time between office and work from home on a day-to-day basis for two weeks. Here is what I found. When working from home, I am working (in front of a computer actively doing something) for, on... — read more 

I've been surplussed and roll off in another month or so and have seen a spreadsheet (won't say how) that the higher ups are using that is full of names of just so many layoffs coming from now until the end of the year. Also, people that have already... — read more 

https://cwad9.org/news/att-bargaining-bulletin-16-april-10-2024

Really? Strike or Not Strike Don’t play games like a High School cheerleader

What do you all think about this ?

What have you heard?

I'm sure there are things going on behind the scenes but odd how quiet it is in retail after markets were condensed. Directors seem to even be out of the loop on who's staying and going and what restructuring will happen.

"The city’s largest office building—the 44-story AT&T Tower, now empty—recently sold for around $3.5 million in 2022." "The price for the AT&T Tower, three blocks from the Railway Exchange, was a sliver of the $205 million it sold for in 2006." The... — read more 

Said absolutely no one who is sane, in the past 20 years. In reality, these leaders and their predecessors have been massive destroyers of wealth. Dividends are nothing to get excited about. They're just ongoing bribes to convince people to buy... — read more 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/smallbusiness/job-trend-resenteeism-has-employees-coasting-through-workdays-and-hanging-on-rather-than-quitting/ar-BB1lnx1p

Latest information; “ The strike vote has started. If you haven't received one, contact your local to verify your information, and be sure to vote! “The only effective answer to organized greed is organized labor.” – Thomas Donahue”

It crazy, the only thing keep is us a float is our dividend. T is already a bottom of the barrel stock, but the dividend keeps it from tanking.

We have had 4 Prem tech openings in our area for 6 month’s. Can’t fill the positions. Nobody wants the job, once they hear the pay, hours and days off, they leave.

This Morning our union representatives(cwa) came to our work location saying the company wants to eliminate our job title. They want to send SS work to prem techs, how does this make sense? Anyone else heard this??

Haven’t heard from our EVP, SVP, VP in months. Everyone is quiet, big storm brewing or are they finally understanding they add zero value?

Sorry Marketing team but the half-time commercial was Terrible! Bring back Lilly who is recognizable and liked. Someone needs to be laid off for that 30 secs I’ll never get back.

Reposting this article here for any that missed it. Chris Rufo has exposed the corruption at the heart of these movements. Check out his book, it's truly enlightening. He covered AT&T 2.5 years ago in this post:... — read more 

What is everyone spending their bonus on? I purchased a new vehicle, at least I will have a paid for ride when I get laid off.

Anybody have any estimates of reduction in US HC YTD? I can't figure out a consistent method of a delta given the various categories of employment and location.

Best wishes to the April alumni class. Good luck in all your future endeavors.

I've worked for several major companies during my 20+ year long career, and I can tell you with certainty that none of them had this much of a disconnect between the people in the field who do the truly important work and those at the top. There... — read more 

C and E tech here, we have been dismantling our network by copper reclamation projects which is basically ki-ling all the big cables that aren't being used! Most of these is what kept air pressure monkeys busy! Now they have been shuffled around to... — read more 

Nationwide strike has been called for all employees beginning at midnight on Monday, April 8th, 2024 for all union members under all regions and contracts, also including all managers with CP assignments, with demands for immediate 10% wage increase... — read more 

AT&T’s leadership has a warped, misguided, and clearly dysfunctional view of how employees productivity and value in regard to where they work. Someone who is a productive employee will be productive regardless of where their office location is... — read more