---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190718233227.GA4459@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 23:32:27 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: CWA Bargaining and Mobilization Update AT&T Southeast CWA members at AT&T Southeast voted overwhelmingly this week to authorize a strike, if necessary. The current contracts at BellSouth Telecommunications, Utility Operations, and BellSouth Billing cover more than 20,000 workers in CWA District 3 and are set to expire on Saturday, August 3. https://cwa-union.org/news/bargaining-and-mobilization-update-4 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190718234424.GA4759@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 23:44:24 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon Wireless Worker Files EEOC Complaint for Racial Discrimination A Verizon Wireless worker who was fired in June after six years of stellar performance reviews filed a discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against the company on July 1, and is now publicly sharing his story of how he faced constant racial discrimination at work from customers and managers. Martin Hopkins, who worked as a Sales Solution Specialist in Lancaster, Ohio, told the Columbus Dispatch about how management permitted the usage of racial slurs and jokes and accommodated customers who refused to be served by a black man. https://cwa-union.org/news/verizon-wireless-worker-files-eeoc-complaint-for-racial-discrimination -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <a5e8faab-f5b0-4ac5-98fb-043f5d5adf94@googlegroups.com> Date: 18 Jul 2019 14:44:12 -0700 From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: FAA says cellphones dangerous on certain planes The LA Times reported that U.S. government officials in 2014 revealed an alarming safety issue: Passenger cellphones and other types of radio signals could pose a crash threat to some models of Boeing 737 and 777 airplanes. full article at: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-07-18/cellphones-a-flight-danger-on-these-boeing-jets ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sat, 20 Jul 2019