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NLRB: Dish Network Must Answer for Threats, Firings in CWA Campaign
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October 7, 2010
After years of delays and all too often inaction on workers' complaints, the National Labor Relation Board is again standing up for workers' rights. Dish Network managers in Texas repeatedly threatened workers and fired at least one union supporter during an organizing drive for CWA representation, according to an NLRB complaint issued last week. A hearing on a long list of unfair labor practice charges is scheduled Jan. 18 in Fort Worth.
'Citizens United' Decision Allows Spread of Anonymous, Anti-Worker Network
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October 7, 2010
A network of anti-worker, anti-union organizations is getting bigger and more aggressive as it spends hundreds of millions of dollars to steamroll America's working families, a new report from American Rights at Work.
Courts, NLRB Find for Guild Members in Three Critical Cases
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October 7, 2010
Good news for TNG-CWA on three legal fronts: A precedent-setting win against the Chinese Daily News, an NLRB ruling in Puerto Rico and a judge's ruling on retiree health benefits in St. Louis.
One Nation Working Together
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October 1, 2010
At the Lincoln Memorial, more than 10,000 CWAers were a sea of red. We are One Nation with civil rights and community activists, teachers, environmentalists, members of faith groups and many more. We know our voices can?t be ignored and on Nov. 2, we?ll be One Nation Working Together again, and will elect leaders who will support the fight for jobs, justice and an economy that works for all.
Two Days to Go: Excitement Builds for One Nation Rally on Sunny Saturday
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September 30, 2010
A lead inside organizer who continues to face a tough fight for a voice at work will be among the speakers, musicians, poets and comedians who will inspire and entertain hundreds of thousands of progressive Americans under sunny skies Saturday at Washington's One Nation rally.