Working Assets Long Distance: Anti-union?

[Jeff Walker]

From: "Michael Pollak" <mpollak at panix.com>
> my long distance operator was in fact Sprint.  I was just reading an FT
> article on the looming strike against Verizon which referred to
> MCI-Worldcom and Sprint as "resolutely anti-union."  Is this true?  Does
> that mean I'd actually be doing more good handing over my money to ATT,
> which the article implied still had a strong union tradition?

WALD leases its lines from Sprint.  Several years ago, there was an
organizing campaign at a Spanish-language subsidiary of Sprint in San
Francisco.  The company shut down, fired all the workers, etc. and there was
a massive unfair labor practice case, which I think we won.

When I signed up with WALD, I asked the person on the phone if they were
union and he said they were (not that he'd be motivated to lie for my
subscription!).  I never dug too far to determine the truth but sort of
pursued a don't ask, don't tell policy.

Personally, I think it's pretty much a wash, morally speaking.  WALD does
donate the money to some good organizations, not just the usual liberal
groups.

Jeff