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    AFL-CIO Launches New Ad Campaign Highlighting Work Of Unions (VIDEO) 

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    Published on January 22nd, 2012 11:23 AM  Number of Views: 56 
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    January 17, 2012

    AFL-CIO Launches New Ad Campaign Highlighting Work Of Unions (VIDEO)

    WASHINGTON —     The AFL-CIO on Tuesday launched a new advertising campaign to promote unions as a voice for all working people, a move that comes amid declining membership and growing hostility to organized labor in a number of states.

    The effort began with television ads airing in Pittsburgh and Austin, Texas, and will expand to Portland, ...
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    Longshoremen storm Wash. port over labor dispute 

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    Published on September 8th, 2011 10:57 PM  Number of Views: 147 
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    September 8, 2011

    LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor dispute, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha.

    Six guards were held hostage for a couple of hours after 500 or more Longshoremen broke down gates about 4:30 a.m. and smashed windows in the guard shack, he said.

    No one was ...
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    Verizon Employees to Return to Work 

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    Published on August 20th, 2011 05:17 PM  Number of Views: 87 
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    August 20, 2011

    Verizon Employees to Return to Work

    By GREG BENSINGER

    About 45,000 Verizon Communications Inc. workers agreed to return to work Tuesday, under a previous contract, after striking to protest benefits cuts that the telecommunications giant sought to offset declining sales in its traditional wireline business.

    The old contract will go back into effect Tuesday, while negotiators continue to work towards a new ...
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    USPS To Terminate LTL Market Test 

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    Published on August 20th, 2011 01:02 PM  Number of Views: 95 
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    August 19, 2011

    USPS To Terminate LTL Market Test

    by William B. Cassidy

    Freight hauling program falls victim to postal consolidation, will end in September

    The U.S. Postal Service is ending an experimental freight-hauling program as it faces massive losses, layoffs and a network-wide consolidation.

    The program allowed the USPS to pursue less-than-truckload freight to correct imbalances of mail volume hauled ...
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    Ex-Union Member Fights $200,000 Union Fine For Working Non-Union 

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    Crossdock
    Published on July 31st, 2011 10:36 AM  Number of Views: 141 
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    July 25, 2011

    Ex-union member fights hefty Carpenters fine

    Union members better think twice before working for a non-union company — it could cost them.

    The Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters imposed a $300,900 fine on a former union member who crossed a picket line and went to work for a non-signatory contractor while he was still part of the union, court ...
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    After Losing Vote, Union Vows to Try Again at Target 

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    Published on June 18th, 2011 09:34 AM  Number of Views: 182 
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    June 18, 2011

    After Losing Vote, Union Vows to Try Again at Target

    By STEVEN GREENHOUSE

    Even as the nation’s main union for retail workers acknowledged that it lost a unionization vote on Friday at a Target store in Valley Stream, N.Y., it demanded a new election and accused the company of illegally intimidating workers.

    The National Labor Relations Board announced on Saturday morning that 137 workers had voted against ...
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    CWA Wins Settlement in Dispute about T-Mobile’s Social Networking Policy 

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    Published on June 14th, 2011 09:36 AM  Number of Views: 156 
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    June 14, 2011

    CWA Wins Settlement in Dispute about T-Mobile’s Social Networking Policy

    Another win for freedom of speech!

    In February 2011, CWA filed an unfair labor practice charge with the NLRB against T-Mobile USA over the company’s restrictive and overly broad policies against employees’ freedom to discuss workplace issues on social networking sites (learn more here).

    Last week, the National Labor Relations Board settled ...
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