(AmericanProsperity.com) – More than seventeen thousand AT&T workers in the United States remain on strike since, according to the Communications Workers of America, the company has been delaying the bargain for a new union contract, proof of unfair labor practices.
Workers, technicians, and customer service representatives have been on strike since the middle of August. The states that are participating in the strike are Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi’s, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Tennessee.
Richard Honeycutt, the CWA District Three Vice President, said that the union is seeking higher wages that take into account the cost of living and inflation, while also maintaining affordable healthcare and to secure protections to improve work-life balance.
The employees that are striking are said to endure forced overtime without proper notification which doesn’t allow these workers to spend much time with their families at all and hurts their work-life balance.
Honeycutt said, “They’ve had to raise their families through FaceTime because they don’t know if they’re going to be working till 10 or 11 o’clock at night, and so you can forget about T-ball games and the typical stuff that you try to do with your family, because there’s no certainty.”
He continued, “That’s what we went into bargaining with trying to get for our membership. But as we got closer to the expiration it just seemed like AT&T was not bargaining.”
According to Honeycutt, they filed unfair labor practices because their movement from AT&T’s side was minimal and they felt there was little to no progress. The employees are pushing for the AT&T representatives who are making the decisions to attend the bargaining sessions in hopes for more action.
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