---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20191101174943.GA4698@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 17:49:43 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: CWA Urges State Regulators to Take Action on Service Quality at Frontier Communications October 31, 2019 State regulators in several states are investigating service quality issues at Frontier Communications. CWAers have been calling on Frontier to invest in its network and workforce to improve service quality. Last week, CWA urged the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO), which is investigating customer complaints against Frontier, to address the company's refusal to recall dozens of trained and experienced Ohio technicians, who are currently laid off, to make much-needed repairs. Since Frontier's acquisition of Ohio landlines from Verizon in 2010, Frontier has cut its CWA-represented workforce by 70 percent, meaning fewer resources for maintenance, repairs, and customer service. https://cwa-union.org/news/cwa-urges-state-regulators-take-action-on-service-quality-frontier-communications -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20191101174115.GA4541@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 17:41:15 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T Reports More Job Cuts, Massive Stock Buyback Plan October 31, 2019 As part of this week's quarterly earnings report, AT&T revealed that it has cut employment by 5,950 jobs during the third quarter of 2019, bringing the total cuts at AT&T since the corporate tax cut went into effect in January 2018 to 33,778. The company also announced a disturbing new three-year plan, committing to spend $30 billion on buying back its own stock to boost share prices. Instead of building toward the future by bringing next generation wireless and fiber broadband networks to all Americans, AT&T plans to use its massive profits to further enrich its largest investors. https://cwa-union.org/news/att-reports-more-job-cuts-massive-stock-buyback-plan -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20191101180723.GA4766@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 18:07:23 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: American Prospect Highlights CWA's "Culture of Readiness" to Strike (From the CWA Newsletter) The American Prospect last week published an in-depth piece called "Why We Wear Red on Thursdays" detailing how CWA for the past several decades has distinguished itself as a union that is willing to strike, and has done so successfully to the benefits of its members and all working people. In the context of the teachers strike in Chicago and the General Motors strike, the American Prospect writes of CWA's unique track record of striking and winning: "Striking this often, in such large numbers, and managing to win gains in an era of worker defeats, has given CWA something of a 'unicorn' status." https://prospect.org/labor/why-we-wear-red-on-thursdays-cwa-strikes/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <963B24A3-637E-44FC-B809-05C9FFF2948E@roscom.com> Date: 2 Nov 2019 09:22:23 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Why is your landline phone dead? Gone are the days of reliable copper wires. Our fancy new phones need old-fashioned backup. By Lisa M. Krieger Our fancy new Internet-based home or office phones are the communication tool of the future - cheap, efficient and versatile. They're also, in a power outage, about as useful as a brick. All over the Bay Area, residents who rely on these digital landline phones are feeling angry and betrayed during PGE's shutdown, unable to get even a simple dial tone. http://www.mercurynews.com/why-is-your-landline-phone-dead ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sun, 03 Nov 2019