Labor Official Explains Impact Of Verizon Strike On Customers

Communications Workers for America Communications Director Candice Johnson explains how the union strike will affect customers (00:40)

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Verizon Must Compromise, Says Labor Official

Communications Workers for America Communications Director Candice Johnson says the strike will end when Verizon agrees to compromise. (00:20)

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Union Workers Want To Go Back to Work, Says Labor Official

Communications Workers of America Communications Director Candice Johnson says roughly 45,000 employees along the East Coast will be back on the job once Verizon stops demanding huge concessions from them. (00:09)

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Labor Official: Verizon Must Bargain Fairly

Communications Workers of America Communications Director Candice Johnson claims that Verizon needs to bargain fairly so that union workers can maintain their middle-class lifestyle and take a stand for all American workers (1:00)

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Labor Official Explains Motivation Behind Verizon Union Strike

Communications Workers of America Communications Director Candice Johnson tells TRNS that Verizon has made excessive demands of its employees, despite being such a profitable company (00:47)

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Obama says to stop spending money in Iraq, rebuild American infrastructure instead

At the CWA conference, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) says America must focus on rebuilding its own infrastructure and proposes a national infrastructure reconstruction bank that will invest $60 billion over ten years for that purpose. He says if America can spend $400 million per day in Iraq and $10 billion a month rebuilding a foreign nation, it can spend $10 billion domestically to put citizens back to work and restructure the economy. (1:00)
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Obama echoes Clinton on broadspan internet proposal

Echoing Clinton on her broadspan proposal at the CWA conference, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) calls for widespread access to high-speed internet in order to integrate Americans into the global economy. (0:32)
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Obama offers tax breaks to middle-class families

At the CWA conference, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) says he is the only presidential candidate who will offer tax breaks to middle-class families and senior citizens, and says something is wrong when a CEO makes more in ten minutes than the average worker makes in a year. (1:02)
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Obama pledges $150 billion to green technology

At the CWA conference, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) says that if he is elected president, he will invest $150 billion over ten years in green technology like solar panels, windmills, and biodiesel in an effort to end dependency on foreign oil and bring gas prices down. (0:51)
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Obama's Patriot Employer Act will stop tax breaks to outsourcers

In addition to the Employee Free Choice Act, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) says at the CWA conference that he will pass the Patriot Employer Act, which will stop tax breaks to companies who outsource jobs and will give them instead to companies who invest in American jobs. (0:27)
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Obama promises to sign Employee Free Choice Act

After referencing pending trade agreements with foreign companies at the CWA conference, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) says America should take care of its own workers first, and promises to sign the Employee Free Choice Act as soon as it lands on his desk. (0:33)
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Obama: Americans deserve health care, "you can take that to the bank"

At the CWA conference, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) outlines his health care reform plan and says that every American should have health care comparable to members of Congress because Americans pay Congress's salary, and "you can take that to the bank." (1:03)
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Obama rejects special interest group influence

At the CWA conference, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks about his lobbyist reform legislation, says he is the only candidate who has not taken money from special-interest groups, and pledges not to let them influence his presidency. (0:50)

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Obama: It's not the Department of Management, it's the Department of Labor

At the Communications Workers of America conference, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) says that the Bush administration is anti-labor and that Bush's Ownership Society translates to a "you're on your own" philosophy. He says that "it's not the Department of Management, it's the Department of Labor." (1:08)
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Clinton says she stands for Universal Health Care

At the CWA Conference, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) says when she will provide health care to every Americans, no "ifs, ands or buts," and this is a big difference in this campaign. I have a plan for Universal Health Care. John Edwards had a plan for Universal Health care, but Senator Obama does not. It's a core democratic value that the Democratic party nominate someone who will go "toe to toe" with John McCain on the issue of Universal Health Care. "What do we stand for," she says, "if we don't stand for Universal Health Care?" (:29)



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Clinton says we can count on Social Security far into the future

At the CWA Conference, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) says she was somewhat surprised to hear that Senator McCain said he would put privatizing Social Security "back on the table." Well, she says, there's not going to be any chance of that happening when I'm president. We're going to strengthen Social Security so that we can count on it far into the future. (:25)
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Clinton says she will protect Social Security

At the CWA Conference, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) says there will be lifetime retirement security plans, she will strengthen pension benefit plans, end the use of bankruptcy for companies to "shed their pension obligations," and under her new American retirement accounts, there will be generous matching tax cuts from the government to help people to save, and I will always protect Social Security. (:35)
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Clinton says we need to shift priorities in the tax code

At the CWA Conference, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) says when she says solutions, she says, she will rebuild the middle class, and will end 55 billion dollars in tax breaks for oil companies, drug companies, insurance companies, and Wall Street, and will give that money back to hard working middle class families instead. You will get more help with student loans, health care for all, and millions of jobs that cannot be sent overseas because they will be created right here. I will cut middle class taxes, she says, by at least 100 billion dollars a year, and I will let taxes increase on people earning more than $250,000 a year. They have had their run, it's time we shifted our priorities in the tax code. (:50)
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Clinton says "No trade deal with Columbia"

At the CWA Conference, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) says she believes we need a time-out on new trade deals until there is a new trade policy that is truly pro-worker and pro-union. That means no trade deal with Columbia as violence with trade unionists continues. (:25)
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Clinton says she will give broadband the attention it deserves

At the CWA Conference, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) says she wants to connect all of America to the Global Economy through a national broadband policy. We often say, she says, that new technology is bringing the world together but that's only true if you're wired into it. In 2000, we were fourth in the world with broadband access, and today we are 24th. America can rise to meet any challenge we take on, and she says she has proposed a national broadband strategy called "Connect America" to finally give broadband access the urgent attention it deserves. This strategy is based on the principles laid out in the Your Speed Matters campaign. (:57)
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