Telecom Companies Should Retrain Workers Affected by Tech Change, ex-CWA President Says

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Telecom and other companies should retrain workers whose jobs are affected by technologicalnchange, much as AT&T has done for nearly 30 years, said the president emeritus of a telecom industrynunion. The job training alliance begun in 1986 between the telco and the Communications Workers ofnAmerica has been fruitful in paying for employees to get extra education at both the secondary and universitynlevel, and benefitted companies too with increased staff loyalty, said Morton Bahr. In answering ournquestion at a speech at a Washington temple and a follow-up interview, Bahr also said he supports changingnthe E-rate program to provide faster broadband to schools as a good use of USF money.