{"id":4014,"date":"2019-05-14T10:45:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T17:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/?p=4014"},"modified":"2019-05-14T10:25:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T17:25:37","slug":"atts-outrageous-california-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/?p=4014","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;T\u2019s Outrageous California Layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<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.<br><br>But instead of creating jobs, AT&amp;T has cut over 20,000 employees since the Tax Cut and Jobs Act passed. And now the company just announced that they are <strong>laying off another 368 CWA techs right here in California.<\/strong><br>&nbsp;<br>We know there is plenty of work to do to provide high-quality service to AT&amp;T\u2019s customers. <strong>The company has sent thousands of jobs to low-wage contractors and overseas.<\/strong> It could bring that work back in house instead of cutting union jobs.<br>&nbsp;<br>AT&amp;T\u2019s tax cut was a staggering $21 billion! What are they doing with all that money?<br><br>It&#8217;s time for Congress to launch an investigation to find out what happened to the billions of dollars of OUR money that they gave away to AT&amp;T and other corporations that are cutting jobs.<br>&nbsp;<br><strong>Please join me in holding AT&amp;T accountable by clicking the link below.&nbsp; It only takes a couple of minutes to fill out your information and make your voice heard! <\/strong><br>&nbsp;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/actionnetwork.org\/letters\/tell-congress-investigate-att\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Click here to tell your members of Congress to investigate AT&amp;T.<\/strong><\/a> &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<br>In Unity,<br>&nbsp;<br>Liz Sorenson, Area\/Political Director<br>CWA&nbsp;District&nbsp;9<\/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=4014\">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-4014","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\/4014","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=4014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cwa9003.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}