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Cohen: Build a Framework like Brazil

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April 12, 2012
Faced with a nationwide attack on workers' rights and their unions, American workers can learn a lesson from the Brazilians, CWA President Larry Cohen said Wednesday.

99 Percent Spring Training: Challenge to Corporate Power is On!

News
April 5, 2012
Next week will be a time of unprecedented activity around the country, as union members, environmentalists, religious, civil rights, community and immigrant activists, Occupiers and many more join a nationwide 99 Percent Spring training on how to gain economic justice.

Community Rallies Behind GE Workers in Iowa

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April 5, 2012
For more than a half-century, the General Electric switchgear plant has been a fixture of West Burlington, Iowa. Now the community is rallying behind GE workers who are organizing for a union voice and to keep those jobs in West Burlington.

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

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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.?