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Contracts Covering 14,000 Workers at AT&T Midwest and Legacy Expire
CWA Members Win New Contract with Frontier Communications To Protect Jobs in West Virginia and Ashburn, Virginia
CWA Statement on Piedmont Passenger Service Agent Contract Ratification Vote
Passenger service agents have voted against ratification of the tentative contract agreement between the Communications Workers of America and Piedmont Airlines.
Senators Urge General Dynamics to Address Wage Theft at Call Centers
Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) issued a letter yesterday calling on General Dynamics to ensure that the company is not illegally underpaying its federally contracted call center employees and is not violating its employees’ freedom to join together to negotiate better pay and working conditions.
Big Banks Benefit from Tax Bill, Aggressively Offshore American Jobs
The banking industry is among the biggest beneficiaries from the Republican tax bill passed in December 2017. Yet many U.S. banks have been aggressively offshoring U.S. jobs, especially in the call center and customer service industry, to low-wage countries. Despite these offshoring practices, and their financial windfall from the tax bill, there is no movement from the big banks to return jobs from overseas. In fact, leading analysts believe that the tax bill will encourage the additional offshoring of American jobs.