BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-12703 SEQUENCE:12703 CREATED:20040203T182500Z DESCRIPTION:\nPROTEST SBC/PACIFIC BELL CORPORATE GREED THURSDAY 11/7\n\nJoin Union Telephone Workers as we fight for our jobs and Communities.\n\nSBC has proposed layoffs and plans to disinvest in California's\ntelephone network. These layoffs and threats to degrade service for\ncustomers in California are not only unnecessary, but fit into a pattern\nof corporate greed and abuse nationally. SBC says their profits aren't\nbig enough. We say let the people decide. Open the Books; All the\nBooks.\n\nJoin with us as we connect the dots and Resist Corporate Greed. We need\nyour support like you need our support. SBC/Pacific Bell relies on the\ndivision between worker and customer, union and community to get away\nwith corporate robbery. All of our bills will get higher and all of our\nservice will get worse unless we unite and fight back.\n\nSBC is making zillions $$$ off of wireless. Who should benefit from this\ntechnology that can solve many of our problems? Unemployment should be\na thing of the past, but the corporate world seems to think they should\njust pocket the difference resulting from the new technologies - to hell\nwith the needs of the people - greed redefined and achieving a whole new\nlevel. Arrogance.\n\nENOUGH IS ENOUGH - JOIN US - SAVE OUR JOBS - STOP CORPORATE ABUSE\n\n5PM - THURSDAY\nNOVEMBER 7, 2002\n\n2150 WEBSTER ST\nDOWNTOWN OAKLAND\n\nThis is the big Pacific Bell building near the 19th St BART station.\n\nWe encourage you to come and join us in making some noise. It's too late\nto talk of developing a festival of resistance, but that would be the\ndesired option. Bring noise-makers, puppets, etc. Let's let this\nCorporate Texas Bully know that the people of California are tired.\nTired of Corporate rip-off artists that come dressed in sheep's\nclothing, promising to help to meet our needs - only to be threatened,\nstabbed in the back, thrown out of work, and then asked\n"What - you don't like the new Ball Park?"\n\nJoin Telephone Workers Protesting Corporate Greed\n\nSince Pacific Bell's new owner, Texas corporate bully SBC, purchased\nPacific Bell it has been seeking to undercut the rights and degrade the\nconditions of the workers. This has gotten to the point of removing\nsafe drinking water, and turning off the hot water for union workers!\nResistance has been brewing as would be expected as the company has\ninstituted a maze of speed-up/work intensification type scenarios, while\nopenly setting up the best state-of-the-art spy equipment, to spy on\nus!, monitoring our every move and listening to our every word whenever\nthey find it desireable.\n\nPacific Bell is a thing of the past. We're now ruled by naked greed\nemanating from Texas.\n\nCustomer complaints are on the rise; no surprise as we're expected to\n'move a little faster' while they watch the network deteriorate without\nmaking the necessary investments/repairs. This all happens in a climate\nwhere the most experienced technicians have all been recently offered\nretirement packages, leaving the network in the hands of fewer and less\nexperienced workers as we head into the rainy season.\n\nAs if this wasn't enough, a statement was issued recently by SBC big-wig\nEd Whitacre that leaves one breathless. He announced the elimination of\nanother 11,000 jobs (on top of 10,000 earlier this year) with more job\neliminations in the works. This action will hurl thousands of our\nco-workers into a virtual Sea of Unemployment and increased insecurity\nfor ourselves, our families and our communities. These union jobs will\ndisappear permanently from our communities and they got us thinking it's\na good thing, "…need to be competitive…" At a time when technological\nadvances should have long ago eliminated unemployment, we face the\nspecter of increasing misery among working people - in the midst of\nincreasing wealth among the corporate elite.\n\nWhitacre further threatened the telephone service for California's\ncustomers announcing that SBC will lower investment in the California\nnetwork (moving their profits where?) indicating that this will\ncertainly affect customer service, but blaming regulations. We feel that\nthere's no good excuse for greed, and greed is what it's really all\nabout.\n\nTough times call for tough unions and for working people to unite and\nfight for a better future. We need to come together like never before.\nIt's long past time to draw the line and take a stand. We're asking you\nto join with us. Worker and Customer United, we will draw a line that\nwill be unmistakable.\n\nAn Injury to One Is an Injury to All!\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/12703.php SUMMARY:PROTEST SBC/PacBell LOCATION:Pacific Bell Headquarters\n2150 Webster St\nOakland\n(near 19th St BART)\n URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/12703.php DTSTART:20021108T010000Z DTEND:20021108T030000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR