About 75 telecom workers and community supporters rallied in support of a Verizon technician in Lynn, MA who was recently threatened by a supervisor while acting in his capacity as an IBEW Local 2321

Members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) are stepping up a campaign against the proposed sale of telephone lines in 14 states by telecom industry giant Verizon to the much smaller, mostl

BOSTON – Since the creation of the Transportation Security Administration – following the attacks of September 11, 2001 – unionists have been trying to organize TSA workers; something the Bush administration and their Republican allies in Congress vigorously opposed.

BOSTON - On Tuesday, a delegation labor unionists and community activists delivered a letter to the Mexican Deputy Consul General rebuking Mexican President Felipe Calderón for his government's seizure of Central Light and Power plants, decertification of the Mexican Electrical Workers Union and firing of between 44,000 and 45,000 union workers.

BOSTON/Downtown Crossing - Lucine Williams wants her old job back.

“If I was given back my job [I would go back to work for Hyatt,] that’s why we’re all standing out here.”

“Out here” is next to a makeshift stage, erected by members of UNITE HERE Local 26 in front of the Boston Hyatt Regency Hotel on a chilly evening earlier this month.

“May the eyes of the Hyatt management be opened and may their hearts be softened,” intoned Rabbi Barbara Pensner of Temple Hillel B’nai Torah in West Roxbury. “May they recognize they’ve made an error in judgment. May they repent the cruelty and immorality of their acts and may they open their doors to welcome these women [and men] back into their jobs again.”

BOSTON/Boston Common and other locations in downtown Boston - Over 1000 people - primarily members of dozens of area unions and allied community organizations - participated in a "Rally for Jobs" last Thursday around downtown Boston. The goal of the public action, according to organizers from the state's main labor federation Mass. AFL-CIO and the labor-community coalition Jobs with Justice, was to "fight against a jobless recovery and demand an economy that works for everyone." The event started with a rally on Boston Common followed by a march to another rally in front of Verizon headquarters in Post Office Square and concluded with another march to the Hyatt Regency hotel near Chinatown where the marchers met up with over 200 members of the UNITEHERE hotel workers union for a boisterous protest against Hyatt Corporation's recent firing of 100 longtime employees who were immediately replaced with contract workers.

The figures are staggering. Unemployment is at 9.1 percent and new unemployment claims continue to increase. By one measure, real unemployment and underemployment are double the official rate.

Boston -- The figures are staggering. Unemployment is at 9.1 percent and new unemployment claims continue to increase.

After a short campaign, eighty-one AT&T Mobility phone store workers in eleven Vermont stores have formed a new union with CWA Local 1400.

BOSTON/Downtown Crossing - Over 500 people - primarily members of several local unions - picketed outside the Hyatt Regency Hotel at One Lafayette Place on Thursday at a protest organized by UNITE HERE Local 26 to demand the reinstatement of 100 Boston-area Hyatt hotel employees that were summarily fired on August 31st and replaced with workers from Georgia-based outsourcing company, Hospitality Staffing Solutions. Many of the workers had been with Hyatt for over 20 years.