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...
View ArticleAT&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...
View ArticleT-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...
View ArticleThis 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...
View ArticleAT&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...
View ArticleAT&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...
View ArticleUber 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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