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CWA Announces 15 First-Year Winners for 2011 Joe Beirne Scholarhips
News
July 21, 2011
CWA has announced the 2011 Joe Beirne Foundation scholarship winners, 15 students who will receive $3,000 per year for two years for any post-high school education.
Click Here: A Workers' Roundup of the Web's Best
News
July 21, 2011
"Corporate America's Chokehold on Wages," is the latest from Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson, one of the media's strongest voices for unions and workers' rights. "If you're wondering why American consumers are still flat on their backs... the answer is both fundamental and simple: It's not just that so many of them are unemployed. The ones who are employed are also underpaid," Meyerson writes.
House GOP to Domestic Aviation Industry: Drop Dead
Press Release
As the Associated Press reports today, "A quarrel between the House and Senate over union organizing by airline and railroad workers could lead to a shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration."
US Department of Labor: Statement by Secretary of Labor Solis on heat waves
News
July 20, 2011
Statement by Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis on continued heat waves sweeping the country.
T-Mobile Workers Win Union Voice in Connecticut
Press Release
T-Mobile USA technicians in Connecticut today voted for representation by the Communications Workers of America-TU. The vote was 8-7 for CWA-TU representation with one challenged ballot of a union supporter who had recently transferred into the unit. The challenge will not affect the outcome. The Connecticut technicians are the first to vote for union representation at T-Mobile USA. T-Mobile operations in Germany, owned by Deutsche Telekom, fully respect workers? right to bargain collectively, but U.S. management historically had undertaken a campaign of delaying tactics and interference to intimidate workers. The Connecticut techs stood strong against these tactics and for a union voice.