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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
News
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
Press Release
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.?
AFA-CWA Reaches Tentative Pact at Hawaiian; Asks NMB to Declare Impasse at Spirit
News
March 15, 2012
AFA-CWA reached a tentative agreement with Hawaiian Airlines covering 1,200 Flight Attendants.
Mark Your Calendar for the Verizon National Day of Action
News
March 8, 2012
On March 22, in communities across the U.S., CWAers, Transport Workers Union members, Jobs with Justice and AFL-CIO activists and lots of supporters will hold rallies and actions to spotlight the corporate greed of "Verigreedy" Verizon.