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American Airlines agents and supporters rallied today outside the U.S. District Court in Ft. Worth, Tex., then went inside where Judge Terry Means was hearing American Airlines? case for a preliminary injunction that would further stop the 10,000 agents from their exercising democratic right to vote.

Workers at the General Electric switchgear plant in Burlington, Iowa did everything they could to save their company, even taking pay cuts of 30-50 percent to keep the plant running.

The Republican-majority House of Representatives Wednesday voted against consideration of HR 3596, the U.S. Call Center Worker and Consumer Protection Act.

T-Mobile USA will shut down seven call centers on Friday, June 22 affecting 3,300 workers and their communities. The call centers are Allentown, Pa.; Thornton, Colo.; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Frisco and Brownsville, Tex.; Lenexa, Kan.; and Redmond, Ore.

With offshoring becoming a bigger issue than ever at newspapers, the Dayton Newspaper Guild-CWA took advantage of Flag Day last week to send a strong message to the company and remind workers what?s at stake.