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TNG-CWA Local 31003 filed charges with the National Labor Relations Board over Thomson Reuters Corp.'s illegal and unilateral pay cuts that drastically cut the compensation of journalists, technicians and other employees by 10 percent.

More than 20,000 members of ver.di at T-Systems in Germany, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, are mobilizing for job actions following management's failure to resolve workers' bargaining issues after three rounds of negotiations. In the last few days, about 2,000 workers have participated in partial strikes at different locations.

CWA's Customer Service Advocate Committee is up and running, with members representing customer service work across CWA sectors - wireless and wireline telecommunications, public sector, airlines and the newspaper industry.

A new study by the University of California's Berkeley Labor Center shows that non-union members would be equally hit by a health care excise tax. Based on data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, the analysis finds that at least 80 percent of the workers who would be hit by the tax in 2019 would be non-union employees. However, non-union members, like union members, would benefit from changes that union leaders negotiated with the White House and congressional leaders last month.

CWA is continuing to press for NLRB nominees Craig Becker and Mark Pearce to be confirmed as soon as possible, with a recess appointment from President Obama if necessary.