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The Center for Community Change will be honoring CWA District 4 Vice President Seth Rosen on Sept. 20 for his tremendous work in building labor partnerships. The awards event starts at 6 p.m. at AFL-CIO Headquarters at 815 16th St., NW, Washington, DC.

Shouting slogans and flashing banners, 20 ver.di members protested the anti-worker policies of Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Mobile USA at the International Broadcasting Fair in Berlin.

“We think it is not OK that the Telekom presents a nice facade here at IFA, while our colleagues in the USA lack essential rights” said Tomas Lenk, ver.di shop steward, adding that US employees face anti-union harassment and intimidation.  “It’s because of these things that we join the solidarity campaign: We expect better from Deutschen Telekom."

USW Health, Safety & Environment Department and Tony Mazzocchi Center Digest, 8/24/2012

Watch CWA President Larry Cohen discuss the 2012 presidential election and collective bargaining on The Ed Show.

“Mitt Romney brought us a new verb in the English language called ‘Bain-ed,’" he says. "Workers know they are Bain-ed when their jobs are sent out of the country. They’re Bain-ed when their pay is cut. They’re Bain-ed when they lose their pensions and health care. That’s what Mitt Romney is about.”

 

A history of Labor day from the Department of Labor