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Here Are the Details of Verizon’s New Contract With Striking Union Workers
A tentative deal between Verizon Communications and leaders of striking unions includes 1,400 new jobs and pay raises topping 10%, the company and unions representing about 40,000 workers said on...
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Why Unions Are Canvassing Their Swing-State Members Early This Election
With the votes of disgruntled white working-class men a key prize in this fall's election, union members are fanning out in eight Ohio cities this weekend to spell out to their members and supporters...
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The Inside Story of How the Verizon Strike Ended
Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez and his staff had been following the uneven negotiations between Verizon Communications and its two large unions for almost a year when some 40,000 workers, mostly...
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AT&T Sees Its First Labor Problem In Years With Rejected Contract Proposal
A group of more than 40,000 unionized workers in AT&T’s wireless business rejected a proposed benefits contract, marking the first contentious labor negotiation at the telecom giant in several...
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T-Mobile Workers Press Unionization Drive in Kansas
Workers at T-Mobile who have been trying to organize a union opened their first official field office in Wichita, Kan. near one of the wireless carrier’s call centers. The small but symbolic move marks...
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This Powerful Union President Says Clinton Told Him She’d Renegotiate NAFTA
United Auto Workers President Dennis Williams said on Tuesday that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has assured him she would renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement if she...
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AT&T’s Top Union Getting More Confrontational
A long period of labor peace at AT&T appears to be slowly eroding, with negotiations over two more union contracts heating up in recent weeks. A group of some 2,000 workers in AT&T’s Internet...
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AT&T and Union For Wireless Workers Have New Proposed Benefits Deal
AT&T and negotiators for 42,000 unionized workers in its mobile business said they reached a new deal on a benefits contract after a prior agreement was rejected by the workers last month. Union...
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Uber and Lyft Won’t Be Happy About This Seattle Court Ruling
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit against the city of Seattle over a landmark law which allows Uber and Lyft drivers to unionize. Seattle last year became the first U.S. city to pass a law...
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Canada’s Auto Union Names Fiat Chrysler Next Target for Talks
Canada’s main autoworkers’ union, Unifor, said on Thursday that Fiat Chrysler Automobiles was its next target in negotiations, after securing a tentative deal with General Motors earlier this week. The...
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GM’s $421 Million Investment Deal Wins Approval By Canadian Union
Canada’s Unifor union has ratified a deal with General Motors that will see C$554 million ($420.84 million) invested in local plants, the labor group said on Sunday as it prepares for related talks...
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How AT&T Is Maintaining Peace With Union Workers
AT&T continued its run of positive labor relations, reaching several tentative agreements with portions of its unionized workforce. One agreement covers about 2,000 workers in its wired Internet...
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Why Verizon Is Closing Call Centers After It Said It Wouldn’t
Probably the biggest issues in the bitter, seven week strike by workers at Verizon Communications this spring was job security--especially for call center employees. And the lowest point of the entire...
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AT&T Union Workers Ratify 16th Straight Deal
Unionized workers in AT&T’s wired Internet business narrowly approved a new three year contract, the telecommunications giant said on Monday. Some 2,000 workers voted 54% to 45% in favor of the...
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T-Mobile Hit With Complaint Over Accounting and Disclosure Policies
T-Mobile was hit by an investor complaint on Wednesday, questioning some of its accounting and disclosure policies. CtW Investment Group, a union-backed investor activism firm, said it asked the...
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Uber Drivers Are Joining Nationwide ‘Fight for $15’ Protests on Tuesday
Drivers for ride service company Uber will join planned nationwide protests on Tuesday, when activists and low-wage workers renew their call for better pay and the right to join a union in the wake of...
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Big Telecom Union Targeting Wireless Workers in 2017
With the old line telephone business shrinking every year, the main union for telecommunications employees is renewing its efforts to organize more workers on the wireless side of the industry....
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More Than 500 Carrier Jobs Will Still Go to Mexico, Union Says
Carrier Corp. is keeping around 800 jobs in the U.S. as a result of negotiations with president-elect Donald Trump, but about 500 are still set to be outsourced, according to a local union. The United...
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United Airlines Mechanics Finally Ratify a New Long-Term Contract
Union mechanics at United Continental Holdings on Monday ratified a six-year joint collective bargaining agreement with the airline, marking the end to several years of contract talks between the two...
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This Is AT&T’s Tentative Deal to Unionize DirecTV Call Centers
AT&T extended its run of successful labor negotiations, announcing on Tuesday a new tentative deal to give raises to 2,000 workers at five DirecTV call centers it acquired last year. The carrier...
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