CWA’s Larson warns of post-election push for Trans-Pacific Pact
CWA's legislative director is urging his union's activists - and other unionists - to keep the pressure on lawmakers to vote against the TPP.
TPP, presidential politics the talk at Steelworkers legislative conference
Lobbying against the looming Trans-Pacific Partnership "free trade pact" was a hot topic there.
Nabisco worker fears her middle class life will slip away
'We said 'hell no' to $46 million in concessions: That would have put us at about $10 an hour and I'm sure they wanted the insurance and the pensions too."
Presidential hopefuls on so-called 'free trade' pacts
Defeating anti-worker trade pacts is a key plank in organized labor's Raise The Wage campaign: Labor is not against trade but it's against unfair trade the pacts create.
UAW Prez: Yet another reason to reject the TPP
"Why can't the United States government guarantee the same thing - labor rights - that we have in Canada?"
Burn the TPP, not workers
Middle America is smoldering. For too long, citizens worked harder and produced more, yet corporations cut pay and benefits.
Trumka kicks off anti-TPP drive at town hall meeting in New Hampshire
New Hampshire is the site of the first presidential primary next year, and the TPP has already become an issue on the campaign trail.
Trans Pacific Partnership deal: Corporations, not nations, call the shots
If TPP is enacted as written, it will give corporations and banks a way to undermine any and all regulations member nations have put in place to protect consumers and workers.
After first look at full TPP text, union leaders give pact thumbs down
Union leaders gave the 12-nation treaty an initial thumbs down as being too pro-corporate and not guaranteeing workers' rights.
Netroots Nation delegates discussed unions' role in progressive causes
Unionists at the confab included a large delegation from the CWA, a former top Unite Here activist, and AFL-CIO officials Liz Shuler and Tefere Gebre.
