9,000 American Airlines passenger service agents, after a 19-year struggle, joined together today in a vote with the members of the USAirways CWA-IBT Association to form a new bargaining unit of 14,500 agents at American Airlines. It is the largest labor organizing victory in the South in decades.
The proposed AT&T/DIRECTV merger will advance the deployment of high-speed broadband, strengthen competition in the video and broadband markets, and promote collective bargaining and good, career jobs, the Communications Workers of America said in comments filed today with the Federal Communications Commission.
After 11 years, CNN employees finally have a measure of justice. The National Labor Relations Board on Monday found ?overwhelming? evidence of anti-union animus at the cable news giant and ordered it to ?make whole? more than 300 employees who lost their jobs and the benefits of union representation in the wake of the company?s phony reorganization scheme to get rid of unionized workers.
It is distressing to see the polarization of the U.S. Supreme Court, and now the Senate, on the critical issue of getting big money out of our politics.
