{"id":4011,"date":"2019-05-11T11:30:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T18:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2019-05-11T11:11:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T18:11:58","slug":"its-time-for-congress-to-investigate-att","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/?p=4011","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time for Congress to Investigate AT&#038;T!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AT&amp;T CEO Randall Stephenson\nmade big promises to create jobs and invest in our communities if Congress\npassed a big tax cut for corporations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But instead of creating jobs,\nAT&amp;T has cut over 20,000 employees since the Tax Cut and Jobs Act passed.\nAnd now the company just announced that they are <strong>laying off another 368 CWA techs right\nhere in California.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We know there is plenty of work\nto do to provide high-quality service to AT&amp;T\u2019s customers. <strong>The company has sent thousands of jobs\nto low-wage contractors and overseas.<\/strong> It could bring that work\nback in house instead of cutting union jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AT&amp;T\u2019s tax cut was a\nstaggering $21 billion! What are they doing with all that money?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s time for Congress to launch\nan investigation to find out what happened to the billions of dollars of OUR\nmoney that they gave away to AT&amp;T and other corporations that are cutting\njobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Please join me in holding\nAT&amp;T accountable by clicking the link below. &nbsp;It only takes a couple\nof minutes to fill out your information and make your voice heard to Congress!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net\/mpss\/c\/5wA\/ni0YAA\/t.2rh\/BARuEzuvRHSw1uU2DysJOg\/h1\/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBewM-2BBXwXmVcDr-2FHe7DI-2FHM-2FKnYf4PWwKwXC2MlbQizsA175ldkhCpIcVkuVjm6dpAep6AffhoAfO-2BoAz8mS-2By-2BhYyhjnxTLDhGtoDcLUL2ODBE9m5K0DBfqdRRF-2BbrgmkWG-2BNfMVo3XsAr4Llq902mHC94JxhkwyOeJrZGpkzM1-2Fzlgd9jGqptbRVyNkKGAMDWNktUgTI5aKQbdshlVuHRu97v9nVJeWzkY2Gkt224mxPXT7D-2FR8TFDzuVvkA8ZnlREPhfh9FWzMAaiWcrpE8whRcx8M895w1fsWpYQJDIrwiRZmbY93-2FeA72-2FbExO4lQ-3D-3D\">Click here to tell your members of Congress to\ninvestigate AT&amp;T.<\/a> &nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In solidarity,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CWA District 9 Legislative and\nPolitical Rapid Response Team<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>P.s.<\/strong> If you\u2019ve already send your letter, thanks! Forward this\nmessage to a friend and ask them to contact their members of Congress. <em><strong>We need EVERYONE in this fight!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT&amp;T CEO Randall Stephenson made big promises to create jobs and invest in our communities if Congress passed a big tax cut for corporations. But instead of creating jobs, AT&amp;T has cut over 20,000 employees since the Tax Cut and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/?p=4011\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}