The story of how Comcast fired an Oakland, Calif., worker for exposing the company's anti-union tactics is getting national attention on the popular video site, YouTube.com.
CWA stewards and local union officers in New York City showed solidarity with Verizon Business technicians in a Jan. 25 demonstration outside the corporation's offices in lower Manhattan.
Personal financial worries and a disgust with greedy employers has a growing majority of Americans favoring unions and condemning the threats, bullying and firings used to thwart workers' organizing and bargaining rights.
In a victory for the St. Louis Newspaper Guild-CWA, an arbitrator has revoked a reporter's two-day suspension and blasted the company's failure to comply with progressive disciplinary procedures spelled out in the Guild contract.
Joined by CWA President Larry Cohen and District 1 Vice President Chris Shelton for the final leg, about 40 members of Local 1168 are set to complete a 320-mile walk from Buffalo to Albany tomorrow morning to save hospitals and jobs in Western New York.
