Updated - 5/21: Over 90% of Union Workers at SBC, represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA), voted to authorize a strike against SBC. 100,000 telephone workers from over 13 states have prepared the shut-down, and are on a four-day strike which started at 12:01am today. Workers are demanding better job security, access to new growth job markets (such as Internet phone services, which have seen massive outsourcing), and an overall base wage increase of 3%. Massive support is developing for CWA members in light of this corporate assault. With $8.5 billion in profits in 2003 alone, this greedy Texas based corporation is attacking the very workers that made these massive profits possible. CWA is also spreading word about SBC's greed, and signing people up to prepare to switch telephone carriers if it becomes neccessary.
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