Fight for telecom jobs, for broadband for all!
On 17 May BT announced plans to cut 55,000 jobs by 2030, reducing its workforce by 40%. It also reported a 12% decline in pre-tax profits, down to £1.7bn. Maria Exall, a long-standing activist in the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) and currently president of the TUC, told Solidarity : “We need direct-labour jobs in the digital industries of the future and the public needs access to broadband services”. She pointed to reports that over the last year one million people, cash-squeezed, have cancelled their broadband contracts, and to the importance for the whole working class as well as for...