Some 2,000 telephone workers in Puerto Rico recently voted to affiliate with the Office and Professional Employees ( OPEIU ). The members of the Independent Union of Telephone Workers (UIET) voted by a 10–1 margin to become part of OPEIU.
Teresa Casertano in the AFL-CIO Organizing Department’s Global Campaigns section sends us this report.
In a recent rally in Mexico City, representatives of communications and IT unions from around the world demanded the giant communications firm, Telefonica, end its efforts to block workers from gaining an authentic voice at the workplace. Larry Cohen, president of the Communications Workers of America ( CWA ), a longtime ally and partner of the Mexican telecom union, the Sindicato de Telefonistas de la Republica Mexicana (STRM), was among the global union leaders who led the march and spoke at the rally.
The proposed merger between AT&T and T-Mobile will not only bring a wide range of benefits to consumers but as important, writes Nathan Newman on the Daily Kos today, it would bring benefits to T-Mobile workers who now “face a complete atmosphere of fear and intimidation.”
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