telecommunications

Industry’s growing wireless sector is mostly nonunion—and companies want to keep it that way The telecommunications company Verizon is seeking concessions from its unionized members in order to shave labor costs and shift more resources to its wireless service. The Communication Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) represent more …

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More than 500 workers from ver.di, the German telecommunications workers union, today descended on Deutsche Telekom’s global annual shareholders’ meeting in Cologne  to demand  the company ensure its American employees at T-Mobile USA the same rights enjoyed by its German workforce. The workers formed a human chain around the meeting venue and released black balloons as a …

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