Elected officials continue to pressure AT&T to live up to the promises the company made on creating jobs with its massive profits from the Republican corporate tax cut bill.
This week, Ohio State Senate minority leader Kenny Yuko, along with all of the Democratic members of the Ohio State Senate, sent a letter to AT&T Ohio President Adam Grzybicki calling on the company to bargain a fair contract with CWA members at AT&T Midwest and AT&T Legacy T that addresses job security and the return of offshored and outsourced work.
Before the tax bill passed, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson pledged at least $1 billion in tax savings to create “7,000 good jobs for the middle class.” Instead, ongoing layoffs have compounded workers’ concerns about the company’s practice of shifting work to low-wage overseas contractors.
“We stand with the workers of Ohio and we support the CWA’s bargaining position for job security, healthcare, and the return of contracted outsourced and offshored jobs,” the Senators wrote. Read the full letter here.
CWA also launched a first wave of radio ads to raise awareness of AT&T’s broken promise to use a portion of its $20 billion tax break to create jobs and to ask members of Congress who voted for AT&T’s $20 billon tax break to hold the company accountable. Listen to the ads here.