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13,000 AT&T workers in the SE on strike as contract negotiations fail
The union says negotiators sent by the company did not have actual authority to negotiate, AT&T says "CWA's claims ... are not grounded in fact".
I think I know which side I'd tend to believe.
Major internet outages are reported in North Carolina's Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, which AT&T says will be remedied by Tuesday morning.
It is to laugh. Odds are the managers who are getting into trucks to do fixes and installs haven't touched tools in 5-10 years and will be incredibly slow and inept.
My heart goes out to anyone in the area who is stuck with AT&T for internet service while the strike is on. Back shortly after we'd moved back to Cloudcroft in '09, our cell carrier was Alltel, and they were fantastic for rural area coverage, which was what we needed. Wonderful in other things, too: they literally called me about a problem with my bill, which saved me $300! Anyway, they got bought out by Verizon, as these things happen. EXCEPT in our area, where such a merger was deemed anticompetitive, and they were given to AT&T! SCREW THAT! I knew what kind of service my friends got with AT&T, so we cancelled the contract, switched to Verizon, and have had pretty good service ever since. There's no way I'll do business with an AT&T company if I can possibly avoid it.
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/17/nx-s1-5079614/att-workers-strike-contract-negotiations
The Slashdot comments, at least at this time, as kind of amusing.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/08/18/0228218/as-17000-att-workers-strike-some-customers-experience-prolonged-outages
I think I know which side I'd tend to believe.
Major internet outages are reported in North Carolina's Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, which AT&T says will be remedied by Tuesday morning.
It is to laugh. Odds are the managers who are getting into trucks to do fixes and installs haven't touched tools in 5-10 years and will be incredibly slow and inept.
My heart goes out to anyone in the area who is stuck with AT&T for internet service while the strike is on. Back shortly after we'd moved back to Cloudcroft in '09, our cell carrier was Alltel, and they were fantastic for rural area coverage, which was what we needed. Wonderful in other things, too: they literally called me about a problem with my bill, which saved me $300! Anyway, they got bought out by Verizon, as these things happen. EXCEPT in our area, where such a merger was deemed anticompetitive, and they were given to AT&T! SCREW THAT! I knew what kind of service my friends got with AT&T, so we cancelled the contract, switched to Verizon, and have had pretty good service ever since. There's no way I'll do business with an AT&T company if I can possibly avoid it.
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/17/nx-s1-5079614/att-workers-strike-contract-negotiations
The Slashdot comments, at least at this time, as kind of amusing.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/08/18/0228218/as-17000-att-workers-strike-some-customers-experience-prolonged-outages
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I imagine AT&T will probably be losing a lot of customers over that strike. :o
Hugs, Jon
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