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Dear Telecom Unions: Time to Fight for the Public Switched Network Infrastructure & Technology (PSNIT) -- The State-based Utility Wires

Bruce Kushnick | Posted 04.22.2013 | Technology
Bruce Kushnick

The real question is: Are the unions going take an active role in stopping the closing down of the networks? Are they going to help to get the networks get upgraded?

Ryan Grim

Silent Filibuster's Days Could Be Numbered

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.17.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Advocates of what's come to be called the "talking filibuster" are closing in on the majority needed to reform the rules, according to a...

Dave Jamieson

What 'Romney's America' Would Look Like

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 08.30.2012 | Politics

TAMPA, Fla. -- In keeping with the small but spirited demonstrations from the left here this week, unionized workers led a march against GOP president...

Citing New Poll Results, Union Launches Campaign Against Outsourcing Call Centers

Posted 08.15.2012 | Politics

Citing the results of a new poll, the Communications Workers of America union said it intends to devote its resources to candidates who oppose the out...

Verizon Workers STILL Struggling, Turn to Board Members, Find More Greed

Dave Johnson | Posted 08.27.2012 | Business
Dave Johnson

What a complex web we weave, when our lives are ruled by greed. Verizon is an example of what corporate greed (the 1%) is doing to our middle class a...

Dave Jamieson

Labor Leaders Attack 'Happy Outsourcer' Romney

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 06.22.2012 | Politics

Pouncing on a new Washington Post report on certain Bain Capital investments, leaders in the American labor movement on Friday assaulted former Bain ...

Cole Stangler

Union Says American Airlines Stalling Election

HuffingtonPost.com | Cole Stangler | Posted 06.19.2012 | Politics

Rosemary Capasso, 59, has worked as a passenger service agent at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport for the last 30 years. She splits her ...

99% Spring Disrupts Verizon Shareholder Meeting Six Times

Dave Johnson | Posted 07.03.2012 | Business
Dave Johnson

Today's Verizon shareholder meeting in Huntsville, Alabama was disrupted six separate times by members of the 99% Power coalition, part of the 99% Spring movement.

Dave Jamieson

American Anti-Outsourcing Bill Causes Uproar Overseas

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 01.09.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A bill that would punish American companies for sending their customer call centers overseas has caused an uproar in India and the Phili...

Dave Jamieson

Lawmakers To Punish, Shame Outsourcers

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.08.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Saying they hope to stem the tide of jobs heading overseas, legislators introduced a bipartisan bill Wednesday in the House that would p...

Regulators: Listen to Workers

Will Marshall | Posted 01.30.2012 | Business
Will Marshall

AT&T is a big company, which perhaps explains why federal regulators are ganging up to block its proposed merger with T-Mobile. Big must be bad, right?

Matt Sledge

Verizon Declares Post-Hurricane Irene Emergency In New York After All

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 11.02.2011 | New York

The union says it's because of public pressure. The phone giant says it's a "fairly standard" move done because the "timing was right." Whatever the r...

Selective States' Rights

Edward Flattau | Posted 09.27.2011 | Green
Edward Flattau

When states' rights clash with Congressional Republicans' ideological agenda, they can reverse field on a dime and become stalwart centrists. The double standard is very much on display in the enforcement of federal pollution laws.

Pro-Labor Progressives Should Support The AT&T - T-Mobile Merger

Nathan Newman | Posted 08.23.2011 | Business
Nathan Newman

In an era when workers rights are on the chopping block even in the public sector, this is a chance to strengthen labor rights in the private sector, where a multi-decade war on the labor movement has decimated most unions.

Labor Leads Netroots (and Others) Astray on AT&T Takeover

Art Brodsky | Posted 08.23.2011 | Technology
Art Brodsky

What happens when unions, or otherwise well-meaning progressive groups, fall in with the corporations, out of naivete or other reasons?

How AT&T Figures It Will Dominate the Wireless Airwaves

Art Brodsky | Posted 05.26.2011 | Technology
Art Brodsky

There's only one thing that could stop this deal -- a strong dose of reality, and AT&T isn't counting on that particular intervention.

Conservatives Stage Backlash Against Gay Republicans

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Two large social conservative groups have added their names to a growing boycott of next year's Conservative Political Action Conference over the orga...

Some Good Election News: Thousand of Airline Workers Vote to Unionize

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Mike Elk

Amid all the bad news for workers last week, what was missed is that 3,000 workers with Piedmont Airlines, a subsidiary of US Airways, voted to become members of the Communication Workers of America.

Too Big Not to Organize: SEIU-International Coalition Try to Unionize the Banks

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Mike Elk

Why would SEIU, which has risen to prominence during the last 25 years in part by organizing janitors, be interested in organizing bank workers?

The Big Industry Lie: Regulation = Job Loss

Timothy Karr | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Timothy Karr

The phone and cable business appears to be "recession-proof," even as these companies do nothing to prevent their hardworking employees from feeling the effects of the lingering recession.

Conference On World Affairs 2010: Start-Up America Innovating To Compete

HuffPost Citizen Reporting | ANDREA MEYER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver

Produced by HuffPost's Citizen Reporting Team Conference on World Affairs: Start-up America "I'm not an entrepreneur -- I'm an instigator of entrepre...

2010 Conference On World Affairs: Tuesday Night Jazz Concert

HuffPost Citizen Reporting | WREN SIEGEL | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver

Produced by HuffPost's Citizen Reporting Team A packed Macky Auditorium was treated on Tuesday night to a truly world-class performance as part o...

A Funny Thing Happened at Stanford's FCC Hearing

Sue Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Sue Wilson

Broadcasters are licensed to "serve the public interest..." If they do not, they should have their licenses stripped away. It's a rule that both the corporate owners and the FCC prefer to ignore.

Middle Class Bailout: Celebrating Harry Hopkins' 120th Birthday with 4 Million Jobs by August 17th.

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Paul Abrams

We bailed out the banks because of the risk their failure posed to the entire economic system. The systemic risk of unused and traumatized human capital is just as real and just as profound.

Big Science in a Small City

Sharon Glassman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Sharon Glassman

Lingo without linguistics can be dangerous, I knew. One of the great things about life out West is that people respect newbies. And they don't begrudge mistakes.