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IBEW Launches National Comcast
Organizing Campaign!
Contacted by Comcast employees seeking respect on the job and the protections of a union contract, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) today is launching a campaign to provide information and support for the workers’ efforts.
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What's New:
Comcast Caught Flat-Footed As Workers Rally to IBEW Campaign
If at first you don’t succeed, try something different. While hundreds of workers over the last several years were expressing dissatisfaction with their jobs and benefits to union organizers, Comcast, the giant cable company, was hiring anti-union consultants and hosting captive audience meetings designed to intimidate workers.
Labor Pool: Pole Jumping...
Amid corporate war, union tries to link Verizon, Comcast
by Livia Gershon, Worcester Business Journal, Monday, 31 March 2008;
At the level of business plans and market share, telephone giant Verizon and cable giant Comcast are slugging it out over how people make phone calls, watch TV and use the Internet.
Happy Easter...
House Dems Look at Conflicts Behind CEOs’ Fat Pay
Talk about an inside job. It’s little wonder that CEO pay continues to soar when the consulting firms many corporations hire to determine executive pay levels also earn millions of dollars for handling other consulting work for the same company. After all, why tick off the top honcho of the company that signs your checks?
Executive Excess 2007
The Staggering Social Cost of
U.S. Business Leadership:
14th Annual CEO Compensation Survey (PDF)
Chicago Comcast Workers Hit the Streets for Fair Pay
After losing basic cable subscribers and employees to competitors like Verizon and AT&T, Comcast’s shareholders would probably expect the company to focus on improving its service, sales and labor relations.
NLRB Hearing Over Comcast’s Anti-Union
Tactics in Chicago
Comcast and Chicago-area Local 21 had no sooner started preparing for a Nov. 29 National Labor Relations Board hearing on the union’s complaint that the company was engaged in bad-faith bargaining on a new contract when Comcast took more illegal reprisals against its union work force.
New Jersey Comcast Contract -- Gains and No Takeaways
Jon Miller, business manager of East Windsor, N.J., Local 827, didn’t know what to expect when he sat down with Comcast’s labor relations representative in September, a month before their contract covering 90 cable installers, clerical and warehouse workers expired.
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