Workers see job promises vanish as bosses pocket Trump tax windfall
AT&T, General Motors and Wells Fargo vowed to use tax cuts to create jobs. In fact, they did the opposite
Stephen Smith worked at an AT&T call center in Meriden, Connecticut, for over 20 years before the giant telecoms company announced it was closing the city’s three call centers in February 2019.
“At 46 years old, I’m looking for a new job,” Smith said. “They basically told us we either need to move south or lose our job. It was out of the blue. We had no idea.”