MIAMI – Local union leaders said roughly 1,400 AT&T service technicians are on strike . They said that is almost all of the technicians stationed in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Monroe counties.
Many of them plan on staying here until a new deal is done.
Alexander Aguiar has been a technician with AT&T for 29 years but has not been paid in two weeks.
“It’s not what we wanted. We’d rather be out there,” Aguiar said, but rain or shine, he’s been at the picket lines.
How much longer is the question?
“Guys are taking loans; guys are doing what they have to do to prolong this for as long as it has to go,” Aguiar said.
He’s one of 17,00 employees in the southeast that have walked out of work over disputes with AT&T over a new contract.
The Communication Workers of America Union is setting up weekly $300 payments from a strike fund.
Local CWA President Johnny Motiisi has been processing all the paperwork.