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Unions Continue Pushback Against Split Telecom Workforce

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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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First NAFTA-Wide Union Could Emerge This Year

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United Steelworkers and Mexico’s Los Mineros union could develop a unification proposal as soon as this August In Mexico, few independent union exist that are not effectively controlled by the Mexican government. According to United Steelworkers International Affairs Director Ben Davis, fewer than 1 percent of Mexico’s unions are truly independent unions. As a result …

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Global Labor Ramps Up Campaign to End T-Mobile’s Anti-Union Tactics

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Deutsche Telekom, the parent company of T-Mobile USA, boasts in its annual report on corporate responsibility that it is committed to the global labor standards established by the International Labor Organization (ILO), a branch of the United Nations.  Except, it appears, when it comes to T-Mobile workers in the United States. International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) President Sharan …

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Rite Aid Workers Continue Calls for Affordable Healthcare at Shareholders Meeting

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Rite Aid workers from seven states last week rallied against management’s plan to make employees pay more for their healthcare and to show support for a 15-week “unfair labor practice” strike by Rite Aid employees at seven stores in Cleveland, Ohio. With strong support by the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, United Students Against Sweatshops and the Harrisburg-area …

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Apple Store Workers Share Why They Want to ‘Work Different’

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On the day Apple celebrated 10 years since opening its first Apple Store, employee Cory Moll announced a campaign to unionize the company’s 30,000-plus retail employees. Moll sent an e-mail to reporters declaring that “the people of Apple are coming together to “‘work different.’” “The core issues definitely involve compensation, pay, benefits,” Moll said. A …

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S.C. Workers Say Boeing Should Not Break Law to Move Jobs There

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In advance of a politically motivated hearing, South Carolina working men and women called today on lawmakers to focus on creating good jobs instead of mounting a political three-ring circus in defense of Boeing lobbyists and CEOs. The workers spoke prior to a field hearing in North Charleston, S.C., organized by House Oversight and Government …

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Boeing Targets Union with Legal Probes in ‘Wisconsin of Manufacturing’ Fight

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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Late last week, three workers at Boeing’s North Charleston, S.C., factory filed for a right to intervene in the upcoming National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) case against the aerospace company. As I have reported, the federal agency has charged Boeing with illegally shifting work away from a union facility in Washington state to South Carolina …

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House Cuts TSA Funding, Eliminates Collective Bargaining Amid Union Election

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It was just a few months ago when Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers were granted the right to form a union following months of contentious debates in Congress. The move paved the way for the largest federal labor election in U.S. history; balloting began in early March. But two amendments recently passed by the House of Representatives …

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Study Finds Unionized Coal Mines Substantially Safer

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A new study shows that miners in unionized coal mines are far less likely to be killed or injured on the job than miners in nonunion operations. The independent study funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) found that “unionization predicts an 18-33 percent drop in traumatic injuries and a 27-68 percent drop …

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Madeline Messa

Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.

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