City Council members in Oakland, Calif., aren't backing down from a fight with cable bully Comcast, which is refusing to sign a new franchise agreement with the city because of the council's passage of an ordinance to require cardcheck organizing for cable workers.
CWA and seven other unions are asking the AFL-CIO Executive Council to approve a new Industrial Organizing Committee (ICC) for nurses — "RNs Working Together" — when the council holds its mid-winter meeting.
TNG-CWA is working with the nation's largest "worker-friendly" private equity firm, The Yucaipa Companies, as part of an overall effort to bid for nine newspapers of the Knight Ridder newspaper chain.
A business hatchet man for hire with ties to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — and clearly well-bankrolled by corporate interests — has launched a vicious anti-union campaign this week.
