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CWA e-Newsletter: May 22, 2014

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May 22, 2014
Working People Don't Need Boehner Trade; COHEN: Worldwide Labor Alliance Must Confront Virulent Anti-Union Efforts in U.S.; In Berlin: ver.di Members, International Union Activists Protest at Deutsche Telekom; U.S. Added to Watch List of the World's Worst Labor Violators; Truth to Power: Fired T-Mobile Workers Question CEO About Its U.S. Labor Practices; CWA Sues Christie on Pension Fund Grab; Movement Building Update; What Happened in the Basement?; CWA Statement on Proposed AT&T Acquisition of DirecTV; Macklemore. Really?; CWA ? There's An App For That

Working People Don't Need Boehner Trade

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May 22, 2014

CWA President Larry Cohen talked about the Trans-Pacific Partnership with MSNBC host Ed Schultz, calling the deal negotiated by and for multinational corporations "Boehner Trade" that American workers don't need or want.

U.S. Added to Watch List of the World's Worst Labor Violators

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May 22, 2014

At the International Trade Union Confederation conference in Berlin this week, the organization's General Secretary Sharan Burrow made an announcement that would have been unthinkable a generation ago. Workers in the U.S. face systematic violation of their rights by some government officials and/or corporations that are engaged in serious efforts to threaten and crush workers' rights, according to the ITUC.