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American Agents Approve First Contract; At Capitol Hill Briefing, T-Mobile Worker Highlights Culture of Fear; T-Mobile Worker Activists Talk Strategy for 2016; The Verizon Grinch Makes an Appearance this Holiday Season; and more.

American Airlines agents, members of the CWA/IBT Passenger Service Association, ratified a first contract by a 73 percent "yes" vote. The Internet and telephone vote was conducted by an independent third-party.

At a briefing on Capitol Hill for members of Congress and staff, Angela Simler, who works at the T-Mobile call center in Wichita, Kans., described her highly stressful workplace as one where managers keep tabs on everyone, to make sure not only that they are hitting corporate benchmarks, but that they are not discussing job conditions or trying to form a union.

Fifteen T-Mobile activist workers, members of TU, met in Washington, DC, this week to talk about organizing at the company and to set goals for 2016.

As shoppers jammed stores on Black Friday, the big shopping day after Thanksgiving, CWA members, friends and families, including a CWA supporter dressed as the Grinch ? leafleted and caroled outside Verizon Wireless stores throughout Verizon territory.