AT&T messed up the industry because they bought, as well as over-paid for too many systems in the late 1990's. They then had the CATV industry ramp-up for their rebuilds based on their projections for revenue based on "bundled services," ie telephony, wireless, CATV, and Internet, but return revenue would not break even for many years. Oops.
All component manufacturers, design shops, and construction companies based their earning potential (Corning, SA,...even Lucent believe it or don't) on AT&T's back-log. But AT&T bit off more than it could pay for and started shutting down projects. They needed cash coming in, not going out. So people like us, be it system survey, design, build or component manufacturers suffered from their bad management decisions. Our projected work never materialized. That is why the west coast is totally shut down, the east is less than marginal.
As far as AT&T going union; they always have been, or not, it depends on the state and what management promised. I worked for AT&T on a project in Florida (non-union area) but AT&T promised the union they would give them a job, and that one became a union shop. No big deal, really. The funny thing was we were OSP management, but when we started the project we couldn't afford AT&T OSP craft to work for us because they were too expensive. Go figure. AT&T is a muti-headed snake.
Re:AT-T GOING UNION ??????????
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Charlie Moriarty
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Charlie Moriarty
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