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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