Mainecat Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 AT&T To Outsource Thousands of Jobs In 2020; US Workers Tired of Waiting For Trump To Act - 'Trump Denounced for Doing Nothing as AT&T Moves to Outsource Thousands of Jobs in 2020.' "American workers are tired of waiting for President Trump to do something on this issue." Common Dreams, Dec. 31, 2019. President Donald Trump is facing outrage from workers and labor rights advocates over his failure to take action as AT&T prepares to shift thousands of U.S. jobs overseas next year, despite reaping a massive windfall from the 2017 Republican tax law. Axios reported Sunday that the telecom giant, which announced last year that it received over $20 billion in tax cuts thanks to the GOP law, is "poised to send thousands into the new year hunting for new jobs after assigning them to train their own foreign replacement." "Workers described shock and confusion when they were told during a scripted phone call that after a decade or longer at AT&T, they'd have to work for a contractor or resign," Axios reported. "Some were told they could not apply for other jobs inside AT&T." According to Axios, three current or recently-fired AT&T workers "broke down in tears" during phone interviews about the company's outsourcing. "The sad reality is you've just been terminated without your severance," said one worker. "You're at the mercy of a company that doesn't really want you." Trump, despite his campaign trail pledge to punish companies that send jobs overseas, has not spoken out about AT&T's outsourcing. "They wouldn't be doing it if I was president," Trump said of corporate offshoring during a campaign rally in North Carolina in 2016. Sara Blackwell, a Florida-based attorney who represents displaced U.S. workers, told Axios that "American workers are tired of waiting for President Trump to do something on this issue." "They've gone from great hope in President Trump's administration, to great discouragement," Blackwell said. Trump Tax Scam = Outsourcing -- @CWAUnion: AT&T cut nearly 28,000 jobs after the bill was passed. - Axios reported that the company also plans to lay off thousands more workers “after assigning them to train their own foreign replacements.” https://t.co/LuwIgVAO9W — Jennifer Granholm (@JenGranholm) December 31, 2019 Far from cracking down on corporate outsourcing, Trump's tax law incentivizes companies to shift jobs and profits overseas by slashing the tax rate on profits American companies earn abroad. "President Trump promised the American people he'd end the march of jobs and profits overseas," Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said in a statement last year. "Instead, he's doled out massive new tax breaks that reward offshoring." As Common Dreams reported last month, Trump's Treasury Department is moving to gut regulations designed to prevent companies from avoiding U.S. taxes by stashing profits overseas. "The corporations that got a massive taxpayer handout are getting another gift from Donald Trump," Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said at the time. Unions have expressed concerns that the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), a sweeping trade deal announced by Trump and House Democrats on Dec. 10, will do little to stop corporations like AT&T from offshoring jobs... More, https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/31/trump-denounced-doing-nothing-att-moves-outsource-thousands-jobs-2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member steve from amherst Posted January 1, 2020 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted January 1, 2020 SImple solution. Americans should stop doing buss with AT &T . But if they are cheaper , that is all 50% of the population cares about 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Skidooski Posted January 1, 2020 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted January 1, 2020 By 9am on January 1st 2020 Pants Shitter is already awake and complaining...........Shocker! 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmo Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 ATT has been a shitty company to work for a while now. They got rid of all the high paying tech jobs years ago and hired a bunch of low wage folks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepr2 Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Liberals outraged at people and businesses keeping more of their money. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member Stephen Hawking Posted January 1, 2020 Gold Member Share Posted January 1, 2020 Sounds like the union failed and is shifting blame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainecat Posted January 1, 2020 Author Share Posted January 1, 2020 12 minutes ago, Stephen Hawking said: Sounds like the union failed and is shifting blame. What union? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepr2 Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 2 minutes ago, Mainecat said: What union? The same union you had for your BILs company. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member Stephen Hawking Posted January 1, 2020 Gold Member Share Posted January 1, 2020 23 minutes ago, Mainecat said: What union? https://cwa-union.org/att Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
washedupmxer Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Att has been the shittiest company ever for a long time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ez ryder Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 (edited) 7 hours ago, Mainecat said: What union? att has been a union company for ever still are . my mil gets a pension she was in sales my bud is in the union and he also business system sales. it has become a real shit Corp to work for over the last 15 yrs Edited January 1, 2020 by Ez ryder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member Stephen Hawking Posted January 2, 2020 Gold Member Share Posted January 2, 2020 10 hours ago, Ez ryder said: att has been a union company for ever still are . my mil gets a pension she was in sales my bud is in the union and he also business system sales. it has become a real shit Corp to work for over the last 15 yrs I killed his whole story with the truth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmo Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 (edited) 48 minutes ago, Stephen Hawking said: I killed his whole story with the truth. I worked in telecom for over 20 years. Everyone in the business knows ATT sucks to work for. Had a few coworkers go there and in 6 months or less were begging for their old job back. Edited January 2, 2020 by Edmo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainecat Posted January 2, 2020 Author Share Posted January 2, 2020 3 hours ago, Stephen Hawking said: I killed his whole story with the truth. I see it’s the unions fault. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member Stephen Hawking Posted January 2, 2020 Gold Member Share Posted January 2, 2020 1 minute ago, Mainecat said: I see it’s the unions fault. What union? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodtick Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 I got called out this morning for a AT&T repair. Two day job and they don’t have the man power to do it. Thanks Trump. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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