Global Union Leaders Demand Fair Treatment for T-Mobile
Teresa Casertano in the AFL-CIO Organizing Department’s Global Campaigns section sends us this report.
Some 50 leaders from communications and information and technology unions around the world took time out from a global conference to sign a letter to Deustche Telecom CEO Rene Obermann, demanding that Deutsche Telecom end its assault on workers’ rights at T-Mobile USA. T-Mobile USA, the largest Deutsche Telekom subsidiary, is waging a vicious anti-union campaign against workers who have chosen to join the Communications Workers of America (CWA).
Strongly objecting to DT’s behavior in the United States, the leaders stated:
Today we demand that Deutsche Telekom end its systematic messaging assault against T-Mobile workers who choose to participate in union organizing. We also demand that DT take concrete steps to demonstrate respect for workers’ rights by implementing a policy in which management agrees not to oppose the organizing efforts of T-Mobile USA workers and to allow the workers the freedom to participate in union activities without fear of reprisals or job loss.
Participants at last week’s UNI Global Union ICTS global conference in Mexico City also pledged Read the rest of this entry »
Domestic Workers Seeking Rights Need Unions
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Jenya Cassidy of the Labor Project for Working Families reports on the importance of unions joining the campaign for domestic workers’ rights.
Many workers have a hard time balancing work and family, but the workers who take care of other people’s families have the hardest time of all. There are more than 2.5 million domestic workers in the United States who work as nannies and maids. They care for other families’ homes and children while they are separated from their own children, often by a continent. They work long hours without overtime pay and, more often than not, without health benefits.
In the most recent edition of Labor Family News, Andrea Cristina Mercado of Mujeres Unidas y Activas (Active and United Women, MUA) and Ai-Jen Poo of Domestic Workers United (DWU) tell the story of Maria, a Central American woman who came to New York as a domestic worker to support her family.
‘Economy Track’ Tells Story Behind the Numbers
The nonprofit Economic Policy Institute (EPI) has launched an interactive tool for anyone interested in looking beneath current economic data to find out what’s really happening with jobs and the economy. The new online feature, “Economy Track,” offers easy-to-understand charts built on government statistics and enhanced with exclusive EPI data.
For example, Economy Track illustrates how unemployment is higher for African Americans and Hispanics than for whites, higher for men than for women, and much higher for blue-collar workers than for those with white-collar jobs.
Users can focus on unemployment and underemployment trends by state, race/ethnic group, gender, occupation and education level.
