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The Joint Retiree Healthcare Committee (JRHC) has completed annual negotiations in regard to the Formerly Represented Retiree Healthcare Plan for 2010.

Bargaining continued Wednesday afternoon in subcommittee, all day yesterday, and this morning as we continue to try to make progress on job security issues.

As the bargaining team breaks today to attend CWA National Convention, Locals continue to turn up the heat on mobilization.

Low wages, poor benefits and job security in a bad economy were major factors in the organizing victory by parking lot attendants at WallyPark, an airport parking lot near Denver International Airport. The workers also wanted a union so they would be treated with dignity and respect. More than 70 percent are immigrants and faced unfair treatment by their employer. Unity and a strong inside organizing committee made the difference in blocking a nasty anti-union campaign, and the vote for CWA representation was 32-11. Workers were supported by District 7 organizing coordinator Al Kogler and Local 7717 President Tommy Costello.

American Rights at Work is focusing public attention on the hypocrisy of Big Business which demands arbitration to resolve all kinds of disputes, but opposes it for negotiating first contracts with workers.