Employees at Cingular Wireless Protest "Unfair Pay"
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Workers picketed outside the Cingular Customer Care Center on Highway 10 throughout the day Saturday.
Union leaders say theyre not striking from work, but hoping to send a message to the company.
The Communication Workers of America Union says Cingular is cutting workers pay, at the same time theyre buying AT&T Wireless for 41-billion dollars.
Jeffery Duckworth
COMMUNICATION WORKERS OF AMERICA
"That`s right if you can afford to pay that then you can afford to take care of your employees and not cut. They`re not gonna give us anything, they want to take everything away."
The workers say the company is cutting their salaries by $4,000 a year, and lowering the amount of their yearly raise.
