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Supreme Court Rules For Employer in Retiree Benefits Fight

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sided with a company that amended a collective bargaining agreement to force retirees to pay toward healthcare costs, throwi...

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Recent Trends In Pension Bargaining

CWA T&T Conference January 19-20, 2015 Workshop Slide Presentation On "Recent Trends In Pension Bargaining"...

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San Jose State's Master's in Outsourcing- January 12, 2015 matloff

In my writings about H-1B, I've spent a lot of time trying to explain that the use of H-1Bs to facilitate offshoring of tech work is really no worse than using H-1Bs for projects d...

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CWA Local 4250/CTU #16 Members/Retirees Welcome Procom Security Inc.

In early November, I started negotiations with two (2) of the three (3) owners, Paul Pustelnik and Jacek Zaworski. Along with two (2) employees, Jim Brooks and Greg Pikul, Vice ...

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AT$T Declares Surplus (Indianapolis, Indiana) & 'Voluntary' Resignation (Richardson, Texas) For The CWA/AT$T National Internet Contract

12/15/14 Mr. Bill Bates, Vice President,Communications Workers of America Dear Bill, On Monday, December 15, 2014, a Voluntary Resignation & Surplus Offer (VR&SO) will b...

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AT$T Legacy T Declares Surplus In Chicago GCA 551 - Total = 155 JOBS LOST Nationwide

December 15, 2014 Mr. Bill Bates, Vice President, Communications Workers of America Dear Bill, On Monday, December 15, 2014, Business, Corporate Affairs, Consumer, Network Opera...

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AT$T Legacy T Declares VTP in Chicago GCA 551

December 15, 2014 Mr. Bill Bates, Vice President, Communications Workers of America Dear Bill, This is to advise you that Business, Consumer, Corporate Affairs, Network Operatio...

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Illinois AFL-CIO Legislative Update

Attached is Legislative Update for this week. Highlighted in this week?s edition: In Solidarity, Michael T. Carrigan, President Illinois AFL-CIO...

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Results of Elections For CWA Local 4250 Officers & Executive Board Member

On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 a general membership meeting was held at the Chicago Federation of Musicians Hall, Chicago, Illinois. The purpose of the meeting was By-Law change...

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2015 Scheduled Legacy T - AT$T Occupational Represented VTP/Surplus Declaration Windows

October 14, 2014 Mr. Bill Bates, Vice President, CWA Dear Bill, The following represents the scheduled VTP/Surplus declaration windows for represented occupational employees for...

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