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Embarq members and retirees in six states will hold demonstrations this Saturday to protest the company's announcement that it will terminate retiree health benefits for Medicare-eligible pensioners.

At the FairPoint Communications annual meeting in Charlotte, N.C., CWA and the IBEW called on shareholders to reject a proposed deal with Verizon, alerting shareholders that they could end up "holding a costly bag" of customer complaints, antiquated equipment and potentially expensive findings by state regulators.

Is the NLRB in favor of majority card check? Apparently so, according to a Aug. 10 ruling – but in this case only when it favors an employer who wants to scuttle a union contract.

Nearly two years after their employer declared bankruptcy, Delphi Corp. workers represented by eight IUE-CWA locals have voted by a wide margin to ratify a new four-year contract.

There's no shortage of bad bosses but a worker named Pete Yonski has beat all this year with his tale of nastiness: His cold-hearted boss callously threw out the forms that Pete – a father of three suffering from a rare form of cancer – had filed for leave and disability benefits.