AT&T Inc, the largest and world-wide popular telephone company in U.S, had disclosed that more than
20,000 workers are going on for strike on the East and West American coastal regions. Being under representation of "
Communication workers of America" , AT&T's both main branches made a join decision on Striking from Tuesday. Hence the cities of these significant branches are perplexed about the question of '
what's next?'
The East coastal branch at
Connecticut holds around 3,000 workers participating in the strike while the West branch at
California witnessed around 17,000 employees' active participation.
AT&T says,"high quality middle class careers with wages and health care benefits that are among the best in the country.These employees are very well compensated, and they will continue to be,"
Despite AT&T releasing this
statement, the strike had commenced with a motive to ensure welfare of land-line employees . After few months of acrid negotiations since April 2012, AT&T confirmed
three-year signed agreement with CWA covering up issues related to
Pension plans and Employee's
salary increments on yearly basis.
Candice Johnson, CWA spokes-woman had spoken out,"These strikes are centered around unfair labor practices, denying workers the right to engage in protected activity, such as union activity,"
AT&T considers this strike to be of 'unfortunate' happening while the company's stock had peaked up around 24% this year.
Last year, CWA's represented
Verizon employees (around 45,000) went on for strike to bring about Contingency plan where the strike lasted for 2 weeks.
