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Fighting for Fiber: How the FCC’s Telecom Deregulation Is Harming Workers

Join CWA President Claude Cummings Jr. on October 14 for a national town hall to learn how you can help protect union telecom jobs.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is handing the big telecommunications carriers a much easier path to abandon copper phone service, with less public scrutiny and fewer state-level protections.

Every mile of copper retired without a fiber update puts union jobs at risk, while streamlined discontinuance rules give carriers the ability to reduce service and staffing commitments with less public oversight.

Click here to RSVP to the national town hall.

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This post originally appeared on cwa-union.org.