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Maryland CWAers Protest Verizon Power Grab

News
March 29, 2012
More than 40 CWA and RMC members from seven CWA locals filled the hearing room of the Maryland Senate Finance Committee with a sea of red shirts this week. Their mission: to spotlight a bill that would allow Verizon to sell its landline assets without any review by the Public Service Commission.

AT&T Legacy T Bargaining Report #20

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March 28, 2012
The AT&T and CWA bargaining teams did not meet together today. We are working on proposals and responses to the Company demands.

German Political Leaders, Scholars Call for End to Union-Busting by Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile

Press Release
In an open letter published today in the New York Times, 11 leading German legal scholars and politicians called on Deutsche Telekom and other German companies to ensure that workers at German subsidiaries in the U.S., particularly T-Mobile USA, are able to ?exercise their unrestricted right to opt for organized representation in the company without fear. They must not be influenced, pressured, or intimidated by employers if they exercise their basic right for freedom of association. The human right of freedom of speech notably entails this right as well.?

AT&T Legacy T - Bargaining Report # 19

News
March 27, 2012
In an earlier report we told you about the Company?s proposal to change the vacation language. Under their proposal, if you are laid off, resign, retire or are terminated (for anything other than misconduct) and you have not used all your vacation time you only get a portion of the "pay in lieu of vacation? depending on what month you leave the payroll.