Need to have Phone Number field as just numbers with no formatting.

We have a web service that is passed the work phone field from the contact object. That WS uses the phone number to auto-dial the customer's number for our sales reps.
My issue is that the WS expects to just see the area code and the phone number as digits as 1235554444. It has been working fine for over a year and recently been failing as now the numbers come in with a "+" sign.
The format seems to change depending on the time of day I look at the fields and is random for each user. The company profile is set to USA as the default and so are the user's locale settings.
How do I make the "+" go away?
I have tried various settings and couldn't seem to find one that didn't give me the formatting. I've also tried to copy the work phone field to a hidden field and using WF to strip out the "+" but there seems to be no way to do a REPLACE() function in a WF rule.
Any ideas?

So after spending enough time with this I was able to find a way around the issue. Ultimately I needed a phone number format that was fixed and would not mask the data per the user's locale settings. It also needed to be just area code and phone number shown as 1112223333.
On the contact object, a new field was created as a Short Text. Then a WorkFlow as created that copies over the value from the WorkPhone field into this unformatted number so that it can be passed to our Web Service.
It took a while for me to figure this out since if you just use the WorkPhone variable you get all the masking based on locale. I didn't have the functions available to me in the WorkFlow to just strip spaces and "+" or "( )" so I needed it to be as close as I coudl to just a basic phone number. By using the FieldValue() function it seemed to take a number like 1 (555) 444-4444 and return 1 555 4444444. This works no matter if it was +1 555 4444444 or +41 555 4444444 so I could then use some pattern logic.
This is what I used to copy that data over to my temp/work field which is now passed to our click-to-dial function.
Mid(FieldValue('<WorkPhone>'), InStr(FieldValue('<WorkPhone>'),' ') + 1,3) + Right(FieldValue('<WorkPhone>'),7)

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