Communications Workers of America: AT&T's T-Mobile buy would create 100,000 jobs

AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile USA would create more than 100,000 jobs in the United States, the Communications Workers of America said, again putting its weight behind the deal. CWA said a new analysis has found that the deal, which would combine the second- and fourth-largest U.S. wireless carriers, would create an additional 96,000 jobs, alongside the 5,000 outsourced jobs AT&T has pledged to bring back. The CWA also lashed out at opponents of the deal, noting that their concerns over lost jobs stemmed from "sloppy research and the inability to distinguish between the change in the number of wireline and wireless jobs." The union was specifically targeting a study that was commissioned by Sprint Nextel, and it said the company's arguments are "misguided and misleading."