AT&T West Coast Union Workers Protest Offshoring, Vote to Strike AT&T's workers on the west coast have been protesting the company's increased use of offshore labor as they work toward a new union contract. 15,000 CWA-represented AT&T workers in California and Nevada are issuing the same sort of complaints Verizon saw in its most recent battle over union contracts earlier this year, when the telco was seen to have buckled to complaints.

AT&T workers in CWA’s District 9 region in San Diego protested at the intersection of San Diego Mission Road and Interstate 15 on Friday. The CWA reached out to DSLReports.com to note that talks have "broken down" and that 15,000 AT&T employees in California and Nevada have voted to authorize a strike, if necessary. The union saysBAGHDAD – Hundreds of Iraqi soldiers were killed and more than 3,000 wounded during the five-week battle to recapture Fallujah from the Islamic State (IS) group, Middle East Eye can reveal.

Since the beginning of Iraq's war against IS in June 2014, when almost a third of the country's territory was seized after the dramatic collapse of the Iraqi army, officials have either refused to comment or downplayed the numbers of casualties among Iraqi security forces.

General Hadi Erzaje, deputy of the Fallujah military operations commander, previously told MEE: "We have casualties, but not that many. We are involved in fighting so we cannot reveal such information.”

But a senior security official speaking on condition of anonymity told MEE that at least 394 members of the security forces were killed and