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Verizon union workers ready to strike to protest mandated concessions

Verizon's ( NYSE: VZ ) union workers in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions aren't happy about the ILEC's call for concessions and will strike if an agreement isn't reached before their current

Verizon's east coast CWA, IBEW union workers begin contract negotiations

Verizon ( NYSE: VZ ) and the two of the largest unions representing workers in the telecom industry--the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

CenturyLink, Qwest come to terms with telecom labor unions

CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL ) and Qwest (NYSE: Q ) have struck an agreement with the telecom industry's two most powerful unions--the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International

Watchdog slams Deutsche Telekom over T-Mobile USA labor practices

A watchdog group released a report that attacks Deutsche Telekom, among other companies for their poor labor practices in the U.S. The report, released by Human Rights Watch, said that Deutsche

AT&T, Connecticut unions hammer out tentative agreement

AT&T (NYSE: T ) and the local 1298 branch of the Connecticut Communications Workers of America (CWA) union have finally struck a truce by striking a tentative contract agreement. While AT&T

CWA dedicated $225,000 to lobbying in Q2

The Communications Workers of America (CWA), the telecom industry's largest union, kept up its lobbying efforts in the second quarter. According to a disclosure, report, the CWA spent $225,000 in the

Frontier imposes mandated overtime to address Verizon line issues

Frontier's (NYSE: FTR ) mandate that union employees in its West Virginia have to work an average 70 hours work week to resolve lingering network and service issues is likely a move by the service

Make your voice heard with the FCC: NOI comments due July 15

In its latest attempt to impose net neutrality rules, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on June 17 released a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) on broadband reclassification. This risky strategy

BT wants union to come back to the bargain table

BT's (NYSE: BT ) top brass has reached out to the Communication Workers Union (CWA), a group that represents about half of its 128,000 of its workers, with a hope they can resolve its pay raise

BT hopes to ward off strike with new pay raise offer

BT ( NYSE: BT ) wants to avoid its first worker strike in over two decades so its upping its pay increase for its workers. The revised offer, which includes a 3 percent raise in 2011 in addition to the