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Communications workers give SBC strike notice

 

SAN ANTONIO (AP) —

The union representing more than 100,000 employees of SBC Communications (SBC) says workers for the nation's No. 2 local-phone provider are prepared to walk off the job over wages and health care costs.

Following a 24-hour strike notice by Communications Workers of America, SBC workers could strike as soon as Wednesday afternoon. .....

"SBC wants it both ways — gouging our workers on health costs while also demanding a first-year base wage freeze to fatten its profits," CWA President Morton Bahr said late Tuesday. "That amounts to pure greed."

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