The solution to these screw ups are to abandon the rank and file and to lay off a good portion of the occupational workforce, outsource work overseas, demoralize the remainder of them, and have their customer satisfaction go down the tubes. This leads to a stagnant and spiraling downward-pointed share price.

When this happens, the CEO’s solution is to repeat the above but this time, give the saved executives a raise.

Finally the board and shareholders get all pissed off, buy out the CEO (which means paying them millions to vacate their office), and they head off to some other company and start screwing them over.

We tried to make sense of all this and all we could come up with for this behavior is that when corporate America discovers that if a persons moral compass is damaged and they can’t perform any useful job function, it makes that person eligible for the company to start grooming them for management.

That’s why our fight for Job Security is more important than ever. Without strong contractual language to protect the rank and file from forced lay-offs we will not be able to sustain our gains into the future. We are in a fight for our existence at AT&T and it affects all current, future, and retired bargaining unit employees. We need all of our Members in this fight. This is our only defense to protect us from a morally corrupt company that is intent on taking care of only themselves.

Stay Strong and Hold the Line.