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COHEN: Worldwide Labor Alliance Must Confront Virulent Anti-Union Efforts in U.S.
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May 22, 2014
CWA President Larry Cohen urged a worldwide conference of trade unionists in Germany this week to join efforts to revive and sustain the American labor movement under relentless assault from corporations and reactionary political forces.
In Berlin: ver.di Members, International Union Activists Protest at Deutsche Telekom
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May 22, 2014
German giant Deutsche Telekom got a big surprise this week when over a thousand international trade unionists and activists from the German union ver.di, employees of DT, rallied outside its Berlin offices to protest the virulent anti-labor practices of its U.S. subsidiary T-Mobile US.
U.S. Added to Watch List of the World's Worst Labor Violators
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May 22, 2014
At the International Trade Union Confederation conference in Berlin this week, the organization's General Secretary Sharan Burrow made an announcement that would have been unthinkable a generation ago. Workers in the U.S. face systematic violation of their rights by some government officials and/or corporations that are engaged in serious efforts to threaten and crush workers' rights, according to the ITUC.
Truth to Power: Fired T-Mobile Workers Questions CEO About its U.S. Labor Practices
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May 22, 2014
How is it that Deutsche Telekom manages to ignore criticisms from home and abroad of subsidiary T-Mobile US for violating the rights of workers, Josh Coleman wanted to know?
What Happened in the Basement?
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May 22, 2014
When most workers in the U.S. want a union, they face harassment by supervisors and intimidation by corporate executives. This video offers a good look at what happens in the basement, for too many U.S. workers.