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Reuters reports:
About 37,000 AT&T Inc (T.N) workers, or less than 14 percent of the company's total workforce, began a three-day strike on Friday after failing to reach an agreement with the No. 2 U.S. wireless carrier over new contracts.
This is the first time that AT&T wireless workers are on strike, which could result in closed retail stores during the weekend, according to the Communications Workers of America (CWA) union. The workers on strike are members of the CWA.
The workers are demanding wage increases that cover rising healthcare costs, job security against outsourcing, affordable healthcare and a fair scheduling policy.
Other coverage at UCOMM Communications Blog and The New York Times
Previously on SoylentNews: Largest Labor Action in 5 Years Slated for Wednesday, April 13 Against Verizon
[Ed. Note: This story was rewritten with a different source because the original story substantially altered the quoted material and contained a longer off-topic text than the section quoted. As always, the original submission is available at the link below.]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 22 2017, @02:15AM (1 child)
Don't scrub that artwork off the bridge, because it's not graffiti. It's a neighborhood mural which was permitted by the city council. There isn't much actual graffiti these days since amateur artists have turned to social media which affords them a global audience with little effort. Sure the occasional joker tags a construction site to screw with the crew, but naturally it gets cleaned up in the course of construction work. Your example for starters of cleaning graffiti is a nonstarter because it doesn't really need doing these days. Unless you can come up with some other unskilled makework job that can be done easily by former bank tellers, I'm afraid you're going to have to pay them to do nothing.
(Score: 1) by tftp on Monday May 22 2017, @02:25AM
OK, then _in my world_ it's the city council that will be scrubbing the concrete. They earned the privilege.
Most of the bridges are rusty and need painting, if not worse [wikipedia.org]. When the workers are done with that, I'd like them to add two lanes to all interstates and state highways. With superchargers for EVs every ten miles. This can't be done over the Internet.