AT&T sabotage plot thickens

Unions are run by a bunch of money-thieving whores.

I cut that fiber boss!

GMAC-hmmm… you seem to know an awful lot about the cutting job…

That’s some messed up ish…hope they catch whoever is behind the mess

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AT&T is increasing the reward money to show how serious they are with regards to this!! Simple and plain you increase the reward money then someone will snitch definitely..

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It’s funny to see all of the hate towards unions. I’m assuming most of the hate comes from people who have never worked a ‘real’ job before.

Let me tell you how it is. I’m a programmer in for a to-remain-nameless F5K. I write code that revolves around the encryption and compression of your personal data (if you work a job, one out of three of you come under our umbrella).

Recently, my employer has been sending jobs overseas. Because I’m not in a union, I can’t protest or get any sort of nice package when my time comes. Because I’m not represented, I have nobody to tell the public about what could be going on with their private information. Nobody’s going to grant me an interview, but they would grant a CWA rep an interview.

I’m not saying all unions are good. I’m just saying to dismiss the good that they do out of hand is stupid.

P.O.S a$$holes. Probably some hatred mad because they lost their jobs. What is AT

Am I the only one who thinks the Sprint tags on this and the other article are misplaced?

Wow, some of you are already prepared to hang this on the union. Amazing. Well, let’s up the ante. I’ll see your union, and I’ll raise you to ATT *itself* . And just for good measure, I’ll throw in the Feds too. Try googling “false flag operation.” And go suck a lemon while you’re at it.

ina way the feds an att are one in the same now AT took bailout money. also The feds an the Obama admin have continued domestic surveillance an backdoor though the telco networks of ATT Verizon and bell south. Big brother is watching, and listening an tracking everything on those networks and can read your account history and 411 as well. the patriot acts an unconstitutional bitch ain’t it?

Dan Hesse did it.

OkI Cut the lines ..I do know a lot about that because I’m a Electrician…But I’m way over here in NY.

ok first of all did anyone catch that BG posted a pic of a sewer manhole entracnce?? anyway telco lines and electric ultility lines never run together in a manhole so no risk of electric shock. fiber optic lines if cut yes affect alot of people with there phone service internet etc.. but only take about an hour to repair by a skilled tech so i am inclined to agree that it was either a statement or a robbery type thing because if people really wanted to make a mess they would cut the copper trunk lines that take days to repair. i work for ATT and the robbery thing happens alot BTW.

Let me clear some things up right now.
I am a outside plant tech, for Att. I am also a member of CWA.
first off. There are no joint manholes with communications plant and power plant. Each utility has a seperate manhole run, so there is no danger of a phone tech accidently comming into contact with high voltage power.
The real danger is for a tech going into an oxegen deprived or noxious gas environment.
Thats why we “blow” them out for 20 minutes and then do a safe air monitor before we enter them. If this was a hit and run job as I suspect, then the people who did this took a huge risk with there lives.
Second of all, lets not start blaming CWA right off the bat. Though I do not agree with much of what my union does, I am certain beyond all doubt the union had nothing to do with this act. Everyone I have talked to(meaning fellow workers)believe this was an absolute disaster. It could easly be afew disgruntled ex employees or it could just as well be non-union contracters that the company has hired on stand by just in case we go on strike. For 2 weeks now these contracters have been sitting in hotel rooms all over the country just waiting for us to go on strike. They are bored out of they’re minds. Who knows, mabe they wanted to push the issue. In any event, this was the supidist thing anyone could have done. I’ll just say this, If this was an effort by CWA or its members, It completely backfired and only strengthened ATT’s resolve in contract nogotiations.

Yeah, it’s not too hard to miss. Had a crew of workers (speaking more spanish than english and joking around half the time) installing Verizon FIOS in my neighborhood for 3-4 days….bright orange tubing and everything. Needless to say, there are several people other than former employees and engineers that probably know where this stuff is.

Most likely is the union. All they care about is money and how do I get more money. Yea they might do some good work, but for that price they should do it A LOT faster. Here in Boston union working like to take there sweet a$$ time to complete everything. Give those contracts to independent contractors and you will get the same final product without the BS and $$$ from a union. Now let’s listen to all the union people bash my statement but your not going to change my “general” opinion on a union.

It’s just the NSA getting their equipment back. Unfortunately they weren’t kind enough to hook the cables back up after ripping out their snooping gear.

dude the UNION is at Large they want more money and so that can sit around their truck for $35 dollar an hour.

Most of the people who bash unions are totally misinformed.

They are the ones who enjoy a 5 day work week, overtime pay after 40 hours, holidays off, amongst other thing. This is NOT given to you by the companies you work for, it is bargained for or lobbied into Labor law by the Labor Unions since the late 1930s.
To bash Unions because of someones bad behavior is just nuts. I expect these are the type of people who are jealous of the good fortunes of their neighbors, and will do their best to bring people down to their level rather than climb up to their neighbors.
It is only in right to work states where the Mediocrity exists, if there is a hiring hall, they will make sure to send only the best workers, THAT is why a Union job is a guaranteed quality job. ( not that other nonunion workers cannot do quality work)
BUT yes.. this blog was about cutting fibers wasn’t it?