Submitted by superuser on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 11:41am
Summary:
Members of CWA's growing public safety sector left their annual conference last weekend "pumped and excited," eager to organize, lobby and pass a federal law guaranteeing collective bargaining rights for public safety officers.
Submitted by superuser on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 11:41am
Summary:
The National Labor Relations Board, by a 2-1 vote, denied a request by Xerox Corp./Affiliated Computer Services to throw out a regional director's decision that certified the EZ Pass workers' union election.
Submitted by superuser on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 11:41am
Summary:
Across the union movement, activists are taking a stand for Piedmont workers who want a union voice.
Piedmont, a subsidiary of US Airways, has hired a notorious union-busting firm, LRI, to keep workers from having a union voice.
Submitted by superuser on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 11:41am
Summary:
Human Rights Watch has called out Deutsche Telekom/T-Mobile and several other European companies for violating workers' rights in the U.S., while maintaining positive labor relations with unions and workers in their home countries.
Submitted by superuser on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 11:41am
Summary:
NABET-CWA members at Twin Cities Public Television in Minneapolis have taken their fight for a fair contract to the State Fair, where elected officials have joined hundreds of Minnesotans in signing cards of support for the union.
Submitted by superuser on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 11:41am
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Members of CWA Local 1036 have collected nearly 1,500 pounds of food for a Trenton, N.J., food bank over the last two weeks, a special effort by public workers who are being attacked almost daily in the press by the state's anti-worker, job-slashing, benefit-cutting governor.
Submitted by superuser on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 10:38am
Summary:
CWA commended the FCC for continuing to work to resolve the confused "net neutrality" debate that has stalled the buildout of high speed broadband and caused the digital divide in the U.S. to grow worse.
Submitted by superuser on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 10:38am
Summary:
More than eight of ten workers, 85 percent, rank job safety first in importance among workplace issues, according to a new University of Chicago study.
