- After working for almost a year without a contract, 17,000 AT&T (T -1%) workers have gone on strike against the company in California and Nevada.
- The workers are customer service representatives and technicians and they're picking call centers and offices in the two states.
- Their representatives in the CWA say AT&T changed work assignments without bargaining and then backtracked on a deal to resolve the dispute. The union is also filing an unfair labor charge with the National Labor Relations Board over the issue.
- AT&T has settled a large number of labor contracts over the past year, including ones with workers in 36 states similar to those striking today.