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CWA to NLRB: Verizon Wireless Subverted Union Election
Friday, 27 January 2012 11:20 | 
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Jan 19, 2012
CWA has asked the National Labor Relations Board to throw out a narrow Jan. 6 union election loss for 13 workers at a Verizon Wireless facility in Bloomington, Ill., charging that the company repeatedly violated the law to ensure the vote would go its way.
Widespread support existed for a union last November when the retail sales workers and customer service representatives contacted CWA to assist them in organizing. When workers petitioned for an election, 76 percent supported the union. By the time the election was held two months later, the vote was 7-6 against the union, a result of the company's illegal tactics.
Last Updated ( Friday, 27 January 2012 11:33 )
GM RE-SCHEDULED Friday, 20 January 2012 09:32 |  Author: Dan Gillespie |
The General Membership meeting has been re-scheduled.
Saturday February 11, 2012 at 2PM
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Last Updated ( Monday, 23 January 2012 14:25 ) AT&T/T-Mobile USA Merger is Off Wednesday, 21 December 2011 10:40 | Author: Dan Gillespie |
The following letter is from Larry Cohen, President, CWA: The proposed AT&T/T-Mobile USA merger is off. All that remains is a roaming agreement and a $4 billion payment in cash and Spectrum from AT&T to Deutsche Telekom. |
CATERPILLAR THREATENS CANADIAN WORKERS Thursday, 05 January 2012 11:14 | Author: Dan Gillespie |
With cheaper U.S. Labor Did we make it to the bottom? Well, we must be close. Would we like to have those jobs? Hell, yes! But I get a belly ache when I realize that they (the capitalists) are playing us against our brothers and sisters in Canada. We’re being used in the same way they played the cheaper labor game to move jobs out of the U.S. The best way to cow a population is starvation. Take away the work for a few years and let desperation set in. Then, when we’re not so high and mighty, they trust that we’d turn our backs on our fellow workers and be grateful. They’re treating us like dogs fighting for scraps under the table. This is an insult to Canadian and U.S. labor, as well as world labor. It’s an old game that we should fight against, and it won’t stop until it doesn’t work for them anymore. It’s well known that corporations don’t have national pride, in any country or its people. Boeing recently settled an NLRB lawsuit regarding allegations that the aircraft maker illegally shifted work from union plants in Washington state to a new non-union factory in South Carolina. It’s the same game played with citizen against citizen. We can only defeat these practices by organizing. “When the baby’s sleeping, everything is OK. But, when the baby cries…” –Randi Rhodes. People all over America are waking up to realize the dirty tricks that have been played against them. We can’t let corporate power use our desperation to drive a wedge between us, our Canadian counterparts or any of our brothers and sisters in the rest of the world. Together we win, Solidarity. Last Updated ( Thursday, 05 January 2012 11:30 ) Holiday Greetings from the President Tuesday, 20 December 2011 11:42 |
Dear Sisters and Brothers:
 As 2011 slides away from us and the New Year looms, we are reminded of those that are without work and those that have lost their homes. We count our blessings and reach out to those that suffer. We can also continue the good fight and work together to strengthen our position in the year ahead and certainly speak for those that suffer. Those of us that are working certainly have a lot to be thankful for and as we prepare to spend time with loved ones we need to reflect on our good fortune. We wish you and your loved ones all the blessings of the Holiday Season and New Year.Last Updated ( Tuesday, 20 December 2011 12:17 ) |
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