telecom

  • Cablevision Workers Lead MLK Day March as Disparities Fuel Union Drive
    Mischa Gaus
    Jan 16 2012 - 10:05am

    Cablevision's Brooklyn technicians will lead a Martin Luther King Day march with the Reverend Al Sharpton to protest the company's racial disparities and prepare for a January 26 union election vote.

  • Comcast Techs Fall Short after Six Weeks of Intimidation

    After a year of fruitless attempts to meet with management, frustrated Comcast technicians at the Fall River and Fairhaven garages in Massachusetts sought an NLRB supervised election six weeks ago.

    Votes were counted Wednesday and union supporters fell short. Labor law would have compelled management to finally begin the long-sought-after negotiations if techs won a majority vote.

  • Massachusetts Comcast Workers Seek Union Vote

    Customer communication technicians in two Comcast offices in Massachusetts petitioned the National Labor Relations Board last Friday to supervise a union representation election.

  • Verizon Strike Ends, For Now
    Jenny Brown
    Aug 23 2011 - 6:23pm

    After 15 days on strike, 45,000 Verizon workers will march into work on Tuesday after extracting an agreement from their stubborn employer to bargain. While many strikers are relieved to return to their jobs, they worry that Verizon will go back to its old tricks.

  • Verizon Cuts Off Strikers’ Health Care, as Service Outages Rise
    Mischa Gaus
    Aug 18 2011 - 3:07pm

    Noisy picket lines are turning away customers at Verizon’s wireless stores as the largest strike in the country weathered a rainy second week. Some service was disrupted throughout the Northeast.

  • Verizon Strike Turns Away Customers and Chases Scabs
    Mischa Gaus
    Aug 11 2011 - 12:28pm

    Verizon’s strike in the Northeast is into Day Five and big picket lines are turning away customers at the company’s wireless stores. Verizon seeks injunctions against strikers at its offices and stores, while mobile picketers chase scabs.

  • CWA's T-Mobile Win Sets Stage for AT&T Merger Fight
    Mischa Gaus
    Jul 29 2011 - 12:59pm

    CWA's first-ever union victory at T-Mobile last week set a winning tone for future battles. CWA and consumer advocates meanwhile are fighting over whether the company's merger with AT&T is good for workers and consumers.

  • Critics of AT&T Contract Back Reform Candidate in CWA

    This week in Las Vegas, the Communications Workers (CWA) experienced a rare contested race for a top officer position. For the first time in many decades, a local leader ran against the consensus candidate of the union establishment, garnering a quarter of the vote.

  • AT&T Bid For T-Mobile Boosts Union Drive
    Mischa Gaus
    May 3 2011 - 1:15pm

    As mostly organized AT&T looks to scoop up union-resistant T-Mobile, the Communications Workers are fast at work attempting to organize its call centers and retail stores. T-Mobile workers worry they’d lose jobs first following the $39 billion mega-merger.

  • Reformers Take Over CWA Local 1400
    Aaron Brenner
    Jan 1 2005 - 4:24pm

    Don Trementozzi had 25 years of experience in the labor movement as a rank-and-file activist and union official when he got a job at a Verizon call center in Worcester, Massachusetts and became a member of CWA Local 1400. The local has nearly 2,000 members working at 12 call centers in four New England states.

    After settling into the job, Trementozzi looked to get involved in the union and was immediately appointed steward because of his experience. But the more he learned about the local, the less he liked what was happening, or rather, not happening.