• By: Steve Tisza
• February 18, 2011

If U.S. House Republicans get their way, PBS, NPR and local radio and TV public broadcasting stations would lose their federal funding and up to 1,500 CWA members could lose their ...

• By: Steve Tisza
• February 18, 2011

By: Elise Gould Heidi Shierholz - "Recent proposals to advance so-called ?right-to-work? (RTW) laws are being suggested in states as a way to boost economic growth. In this economi...

• By: Steve Tisza
• February 13, 2011

Feb 11, 2011 To: AT&T Local Presidents We have received the attached letter regarding 2011 Cost -of-Living Allowance from Labor Relations.

• By: Steve Tisza
• January 26, 2011

Late yesterday, IBEW Local 21 leadership reached an agreement with AT&T that should minimize the negative impact on members from AT&T?s early January, 2011 Surplus announcement. Af...

• By: Steve Tisza
• January 25, 2011

On December 3, 2010, President Obama backtracked on his campaign commitments to create a new American trade policy that stopped the job offshoring crisis by announcing he would bri...

• By: Steve Tisza
• January 24, 2011

In a report released last week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded that the H-1B guest worker program ? which proponents claim is for ?high-skilled? workers ? may...

• By: Steve Tisza
• January 23, 2011

On Tuesday January 25th, House Republicans will debate and vote on instructing House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R ? Wis.) to cut non-security discretionary spending back ...

• By: Steve Tisza
• January 22, 2011

So, why have unions? Because the persistent problem of unlimited corporate power requires an effective counterbalance. The need for such a counterbalance is clear. W...

• By: Steve Tisza
• January 21, 2011

The U.S. visa programs that allow companies to hire skilled foreign workers is "out of control" and is costing Americans hundreds of thousands of jobs, according to an analysis fro...

• By: Steve Tisza
• January 21, 2011

The reduced replacement rate results from Congressional action in 1983, which raised the normal retirement age in gradual steps, from 65 to 67, for workers born between 1938 and 19...