The Bargaining teams met today. We reintroduced several of our employment security proposals, Successorship, and our proposal to improve the Savings Plan match. We also rejected Company proposals on absence and vacations.
This week, 99 Percent Spring/Challenging Corporate Power ? a large coalition of progressive organizations, from Greenpeace to Occupiers to CWA ? began training 100,000 people across the country to tell the story of how America's economy collapsed and the history of non-violent direct action. These teach-ins will give participants the tools to launch their own progressive actions and campaigns for change.
General Electric workers at an Iowa switchgear plant voted Wednesday on IUE-CWA representation. But the results are still unknown, as the ballots have been impounded due to GE's attempt to pad the bargaining unit.
Patrick M. Scanlon, the CWA general counsel who won a $60 million maternity leave settlement on behalf of workers at a former AT&T subsidiary, died on April 4. He was 71.
