Everybody Could Use a Union (VIDEO)
Everyone could use a voice on the job, even white-collar professionals like lawyers.Attorneys at the New Jersey Attorney General's office were tired of scant benefits, stagnant pay and, most...
View ArticleTenn. Factory Worker Tells Truth About Outsourcing
Philips Workers Honored for Their FightEmployees of the Philips lighting fixture plant in Sparta, Tenn., were among those honored for their efforts to keep an award-winning light fixture plant from...
View ArticleIBEW Says No to Green Outsourcing
A plan by Sempra Energy, the corporate parent of San Diego Gas and Electric, to outsource green energy production to Mexico is facing sharp resistance from San Diego Local 569, supported by a...
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Verizon Strike: Day 2
More than 45,000 Verizon workers from Massachustts to Virginia went on strike Sunday. Aug. 7, protesting efforts to take away hard won gains that have helped telecommunications workers secure a spot in...
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Verizon: Avoiding Taxes, Squeezing Workers, Raking it In
The Verizon strike enters its third day as more than 45,000 employees protest the company’s demand for more than $1 billion in cutbacks to health care, retirement and other benefits. But the company’s...
View ArticleUnskilled Replacement Workers Put Verizon, Public at Risk
As the Verizon strike enters its second week, thousands of untrained replacement workers and managers have been sent to do the jobs of more than 45,000 IBEW and CWA members up and down the East...
View ArticleWisconsin Workers: Hope for the Holidays
While your family is celebrating the holidays this year, workers in Wisconsin continue to fight for their rights.2011 has been tough for working families in the Badger State thanks to the constant...
View ArticleGE Workers Win Big Organizing Drive
Cross Posted From the IBEW Now News BlogAfter three failed organizing campaigns in almost four years in Kansas City, Mo., General Electric Transportation’s managers might have thought they had unions...
View ArticleRomney Bashes Unions Now, But Praised Them During 2002 Olympics
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been going after organized labor with particular vehemence on the campaign trail, telling members of the anti-union Associated Builders and Contractors...
View ArticleTime for a Second Bill of Rights? Campaign Refocus National Debate on...
At a press event, union leaders announced plans to launch a national campaign to refocus America’s national priorities on the needs of working men and women, demanding an economy that works for all,...
View ArticleElectrical Workers Tell Capitol Hill: ‘Let us Keep Our Healthcare’
Electrical workers are raising the alarm about loopholes in the Affordable Care Act that threaten to undermine quality coverage for more than 26 million Americans.A new white paper from the...
View ArticleCEO and IBEW Partner to Bring Back Union Jobs
A CEO and a union working together to bring jobs back from China? It's happening in Texas.An assembly plant in Houston, Texas will soon be buzzing with IBEW workers. Neutex Advanced Energy Corporation,...
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