All 28 articles by Rand Wilson, AFL-CIO Communications Coordinator

• 30 Jun 11

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  Rite Aid Workers Continue Calls for Affordable Healthcare at Shareholders Meeting

  Rite Aid workers from seven states last week rallied against management's plan to make employees pay more for... MORE »

• 04 May 11

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  After Half-Decade Struggle, Rite Aid Workers Form Union at Giant Distribution Center

  Rite Aid workers at the company's massive Southwest Distribution Center in Lancaster, Calif., declared victory on May 1 in... MORE »

• 04 Apr 11

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  Rite Aid Workers’ Strike in Cleveland Sparks Nationwide Protest

  Last Friday, more than two dozen Rite Aid drugstores across the country had some unexpected visitors. Activists in 10... MORE »

• 30 Mar 11

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  At National Women’s Forum, Comcast Tech Calls for Management to Negotiate

  More than a dozen women organizers joined U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis and White House Senior... MORE »

• 17 Dec 10

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  Nationwide Action Targets Rite Aid’s Record on Workers’ Rights

  Rite Aid workers, union activists and community supporters mobilized for a national "Day of Action" on December 15th... MORE »

• 09 Dec 10

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  Rite Aid Workers Set to Mobilize Nationwide on Dec. 15th

  Rite Aid employees and community supporters are organizing a nationwide "Day of Action" on Wednesday, December 15 to focus... MORE »

• 03 Nov 10

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  Students Charge Rite Aid Execs With ‘Sweatshop Abuse’ as Campaign Expands

  On the Friday before Halloween, college students in eight cities greeted Rite Aid's customers with leaflets describing the ... MORE »

• 14 Oct 10

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  Rite Aid Workers Take Action Against Proposed Health Insurance Rip-Off

  In late September, management at Rite Aid's giant Lancaster, Calif., distribution center proposed major changes to the employees'... MORE »

• 27 Sep 10

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  New Comcast Workers’ Union Certified

  Now it's up to the company to recognize it MIDDLEBORO, MASS.—On Friday, Congressman Stephen Lynch, Fall... MORE »

• 22 Sep 10

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  Warehouse Union Slams Rite Aid Mismanagement

  Gives report to financial analysts ahead of second quarter results As Rite Aid management gets ready to spin... MORE »

• 08 Aug 10

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  Unions Put Verizon On Notice: We Are Ready to Fight for Next Contract

  BOSTON—Hundreds of telephone workers united in the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and the Communications... MORE »

• 02 Jul 10

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  Rite Aid Workers Rally at Calif. Distribution Center for Good Contract

  More than 75 Rite Aid workers from the Southwest Distribution Center in Lancaster, Calif. marched off the job during... MORE »

• 26 Jun 10

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  Shareholder action strengthens Rite Aid workers’ coalition

  Rite Aid workers from Pennsylvania, New York and California gathered in Harrisburg, Pa., on Wednesday, June 23, before the... MORE »

• 05 Jun 10

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  Telecom Workers to Verizon: ‘Tear Down the Wall’ Dividing Company, Blocking Organizing

  Hundreds of Boston-area unionized telecom workers voted unanimously on Wednesday, June 2, to support a grassroots campaign to make ... MORE »

• 11 May 10

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  Unionists Challenge Verizon at Company’s Annual Meeting

  CWA and IBEW workers oppose proposed landline sell-off deal, release report on 'preventing telecom disaster' Wearing red union... MORE »

• 27 Apr 10

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  In Baseball—and Labor Disputes—Visiting Teams Should Play by ‘Home Team Rules’

  The locked-out miners who work at multinational mining company Rio Tinto's Boron, Calif., facility are stepping up publicity... MORE »

• 05 Apr 10

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  West Va. Union Members To FCC: Don’t Approve Verizon Deal

  By Rand Wilson, AFL-CIO Communications Coordinator WASHINGTON D.C.—As more than 150 supporters chanted "No more corporate... MORE »

• 10 Mar 10

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  Illinois Judge: Verizon’s Proposed Landline Sell Off Too Risky

  Verizon's nationwide effort to sell off its land lines and focus on cellular service has hit a legal... MORE »

• 03 Mar 10

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  Troublemakers Go to ‘School’ in Boston

  BOSTON—More than 90 union members, students and community activists jammed the SEIU Local 888 union hall here on... MORE »

• 17 Feb 10

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  Organizing, Not Mourning, in Salt Lake City

  Social justice, peace and union activists gather for two-day 'Climate of Change' event SALT LAKE CITY—Ninety-five... MORE »

• 12 Jan 10

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  West Va. Governor Joins Activist Rally Against Sale of Verizon

  CHARLESTON, W.V.—Campaign activists here have been mobilizing for months to build broad public opposition to... MORE »

• 07 Jan 10

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  West Va.: New Frontier in Fight Against Landline Sell-Offs

  Members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) are stepping up a campaign against the proposed sale of... MORE »

• 02 Dec 09

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  Workers Give Rite Aid CEO the Raspberry for Unionbusting

  Tuesday night in Manhattan, a Rite Aid drugstore worker from California and enthusiastic supporters upstaged a corporate banquet... MORE »

• 26 Oct 09

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  We Saw This Coming: Debt-Ridden FairPoint Declares Bankruptcy

  After months of speculation, FairPoint Communications Inc.—northern New England's dominant telecommunications company—today declared bankruptcy.... MORE »

• 05 Oct 09

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  Boston Workers March for Economy That Works for Everyone

  Rally and report give voice to workers behind unemployment statistics BOSTON—The figures are staggering. Unemployment is... MORE »

• 25 Sep 09

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  On Bailout Anniversary, Boston Workers to Rally Against a ‘Jobless Recovery’

  With the Massachusetts jobless rate now at 9.1 percent and rising, workers are increasingly frustrated by the mentality of ... MORE »

• 23 Sep 09

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  Vermont AT&T Wireless Workers Unionize Via ‘Card Check’

  After a short campaign, eighty-one AT&T Mobility phone store workers in eleven Vermont stores have formed... MORE »

• 04 Sep 09

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  A Labor Day Reminder of CREDO’s Own Credibility Gap…

  By Steve Early and Rand Wilson The mad scramble among cell-phone companies for increased market share has created... MORE »