telecom

  • Communications Workers Resist Verizon’s Bid to Abandon Rural U.S.
    Mischa Gaus
    Jul 17 2009 - 3:28pm
  • Verizon Decides Not to Take On Unions

    Author(s):
    Mischa Gaus

    Excerpt:
    Relief swept through Verizon garages and offices in the Northeast after unions at the telecommunications giant announced a settlement August 10 that buttressed health care for most workers and delivered healthy wage gains. The three-year offer, which would cover 65,000 workers from Maine to Virginia, came after two strike threats in early August and weeks of worksite rallies. . . .

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  • Call Center Workers Win in Test of Card Check Ruling

    Author(s):
    Mischa Gaus

    Excerpt:
    In New Hampshire's biggest private sector organizing win in four decades, 588 AT&T call center workers who handle passport processing questions joined Communications Workers (CWA) Local 1298 in early January...

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  • Writers Walk Pickets For Share of New Media

    Author(s):
    Mark Brenner

    Excerpt:
    TV lovers get ready for more re-runs ahead. On November 5 more than 12,000 television and screenwriters, members of the Writers Guild of America, traded in their pens for picket signs. Industry insiders predict the strike could last well into 2008, and writers are preparing for a long battle. . . .

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  • Showdown at Bell Atlantic Will Focus on Keeping Telephone Industry Unionized

    Author(s):
    by Steve Early

    Excerpt:
    Eighty-five thousand members of the Communications Workers of America and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers from Maine to Virginia face a showdown with Bell Atlantic on August 5 over the issue of organizing rights at its new subsidiaries.

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  • Telephone Workers Fight Discrimination at Ameritech

    Author(s):
    Kim Moody

    Excerpt:
    Backed by their union, members of Communications Workers of America Local 4100 in Detroit have been fighting discriminatory practices at Ameritech, the Chicago-based telephone company that serves much of the midwest. At the center of the fight is a rank and file organization of African American technicians and service representatives known as AAA-EE (Triple A, Double E), which stands for An Alliance of Ameritech Employees for Equality.

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