AT&T promises to bring back 3,000 outsourced jobs to the US
AT&T and its biggest union, the Communications Workers of America, said they had agreed to on terms covering 20,000 workers in the US. Among the deals agreed was for AT&T to hire 3,000 people locally for jobs that have been previously outsourced, mostly overseas. AT&T’s workers have been focused on their employer’s outsourcing of call center jobs outside of the US. The carrier has reportedly moved 8,000 call center jobs since 2011 to countries including the Philippines. AT&T said it committed to hire 3,000 people in the local areas to fill work that is currently mostly performed offshore. The announcement marks another in a long line of successful deals.
