What happens when your union-friendly employer merges with an antiunion company? If you were a Pennsylvania CWA cable worker, it meant a five-year battle to get a first contract and a continuing fight to get another one. That's if you weren't fired or laid off after cable operations shifted from AT&T to Comcast. Interview by Leo Canty. Video by Randy Croce.
September, Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month, is an excellent time to make sure union families know that cervical cancer is preventable and most union health plans cover the technologies to prevent it.
When Pittsburgh's GM stamping plant closed its doors earlier this year UAW Local 544 workers came to the end of a long and traumatic road. A "triple whammy" of the Great Recession, corporate "free trade" policies and high gas prices devastated the lives of hundreds or hard-working people who had given decades of dedicated service to a great American industry. Listen to their voices and you can hear the Death of The American Dream - but listen closely enough and you can also hear a fierce determination to fight hard for its revival.
