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Legislation to close the Reverse Morris Trust tax loophole is before the Senate this week, and CWA members are working hard to get their senators on board.
The House of Representatives closed the Reverse Morris Trust tax loophole last week as part of H.R. 4213, the American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act.
CWA's Legislative Political Action Team has been coordinating contacts to key senators, looking for support for H.R. 4213, including phone calls and letters. District vice presidents and local union presidents are writing to their senators, pointing out that the Reverse Morris Trust "is a Wall Street scheme that allows big businesses to avoid paying taxes on the sale of company assets" and that closing the loophole would have meant hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue.
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Since they joined CWA Local 1104 eighteen months ago, research assistants at the State University of New York Research Foundation at Stony Brook have been fighting back against an anti-union management and the University's refusal to bargain a fair contract.
CWA President Larry Cohen met with the group when he spoke at a university forum; District 1 Vice President Chris Shelton and other CWAers also were on hand.
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Working families in Arkansas came very close to making Lt. Gov. Bill Halter the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate. It's disappointing to fall short, but CWA locals and members in Arkansas and District 6 did a tremendous amount of work and sent this powerful message to elected officials:
"We will hold you accountable for your votes and for the choices you make on the issues that matter most to working families."
Blanche Lincoln learned that by abandoning workers and doing the bidding of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Big Business interests, she was in for the fight of her political life. That's exactly what happened in Arkansas.
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San Juan, PR – El 31 de marzo de 2010, La Junta Nacional de Relaciones del Trabajo, decidió emitir querella en el caso 24-CA-11422, en contra de la compañía Juseville Construction Inc, por violaciones a la Ley Nacional de Relaciones del Trabajo, 29 USC s 151 por negarse a pagar el bono de navidad correspondiente a los trabajadores de la unidad apropiada que culminaron sus labores en julio de 2009. Juseville perdió uno de los contratos que ostentaba con la Puerto Rico Telephone de instalación, lo que le ocasionó una serie de pérdidas y llevó al despido de su plantilla de trabajadores instaladores. Con el argumento de problemas financieros y de no haber alcanzado el 15% en ganancias para el pago del mismo, solicitaron exoneración. La exoneración fue autorizada, sin embargo, la compañía nunca le informó al Departamento del Trabajo que el bono que otorgaba Juseville, era uno negociado previamente en un convenio colectivo.
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