2009 Pittsburgh Convention Stories: Contract Campaign

 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.
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Pittsburgh's surviving metropolitan daily is positioned better than most, but that's not saying much. Joseph Moliner, a longtime International Brotherhood of Teamsters official in Pittsburgh who also heads the IBT’s national newspaper division, says, "Since 1992 every settlement has been concessionary. We keep losing jobs and those that remain are asked to do more for less.”

 

Comcast works hard to be the company everyone – but shareholders – loves to hate.   
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