Reuters (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and German labor leaders announced a transatlantic alliance on Wednesday aimed at persuading Germany's giant Deutsche Telekom AG to allow collective bargaining at its subsidiary, T-Mobile USA.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
U.S. union officials are teaming up with their German counterparts in a bid to organize workers at wireless carrier T-Mobile USA.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
WASHINGTON -- U.S. union officials are teaming up with their German counterparts in a bid to organize workers at wireless carrier T-Mobile USA.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
WASHINGTON - Larry Cohen, president of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), will outline the next step in globalization -- a joint union between CWA and ver.di, the European union at Deutsche Telekom/TMobile, to represent workers on both sides of the Atlantic -- at a Newsmaker Eve
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
International News: Pair team to work with writing, directing talent -- Future Films topper Stephen Margolis has formed a joint venture with U.S. producer Mark William's Zero Gravity Management with the aim of creating a new management structure for writing and directing talent.
Legal Talk Network (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
In the earlier 1990s, railroad workers claimed symptoms of what their lawyers call toxic encephalopathy. Ultimately, scores of lawsuits were filed in northern West Virginia in which those railroad employees sought compensation from the railroad. On this edition of Ringler Radio, host Larry Cohen welcomes Attorney James W.Turner from the firm Huddleston Bolen to discuss [...]
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- President Larry Cohen of the Communications Workers of America will outline the next step in globalization -- a joint union between CWA and ver.di, the European union at Deutsche Telekom/TMobile, to represent workers on both sides of the Atlantic, at a National Press Club Newsmakers press conference at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 18, in the Broadcast...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
The Communications Workers of America commends House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the House of Representatives on passage of its health care plan. "The Affordable Health Care for America Act gets it right. It doesn't tax middle class and working Americans to pay for health care like some Senate proposals would. It means that families won't face cuts in benefits and higher costs.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Unheralded genre master Cohen, 71, preps for Pittsburg shoot Genre filmmaker Larry Cohen has cranked out Westerns, horror movies, "blaxploitation" action films and alien invasion epics for half a century. At age 71, he shows no sign of running out of action...
Ed Gorman Blog (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Danse Macbre by Stephen King Forgotten? Nothing by Stephen King is forgotten. I imagine that virtually if not literally everything he's published is in print. That said, even some readers of his horror novels may have passed this one by. Not everybody is inclined to read a long overview of the horror field but they should because this is one of the most articulate, occasionally eloquent overviews of...
Mike Philbin's Blog (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
The Invaders is a (supposed) science fiction television program created by Larry Cohen that ran in the United States for two seasons, from January 10, 1967 to March 26, 1968. Project Camelot have just revealed that their source for 'John Robie's THE INVADERS-like story of alien hunting and government infiltration was the well-known and highly respected British UFO investigator Tony Dodd, who died earlier...
Bright Lights After Dark (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Issue 66 of Bright Lights Film Journal is now online. From the editor Keep watching the lights... Articles Roman Polanski: What's on Trial? By Karin Luisa Badt Looking at Charlie: Modern Times An Occasional Series on the Life and Work of Charlie Chaplin "Buck up! Never say die! We’ll get along!" By Alan Vanneman Past Sunset: Noir in the West "I don't need other people. I don't...
Late Mag (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
vinyl4giants has a quick interview with composer of the Black Dynamite OST Adrian "AJ" Younge. The film directed by Scott Sanders and starring Michael Jai White is a homage to classic 70's Blaxploitation flicks and needed a homage soundtrack to suit. Those familiar to the genre will know that it's one where the music is hugely integral. Often the soundtracks were works of a far higher calibre...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Legendary director/writer Larry Cohen actually had a hand in this remake of his classic 1970s horror film and it shows. What could have been a complete debacle is handled with a degree of intelligence. Make no mistake this is till cheesy stuff but it has odd moments of raw power and I'm guessing that it will be referenced now and then by those trying to figure out why the child as demon horror film...
AFL-CIO Weblog (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
The Senate Finance Committee’s 40 percent excise tax on so-called “Cadillac” health care plans would hit 37 percent of family health insurance plans and 41 percent of single plans by 2019, according to an analysis of the committee’s original health care reform bill conducted by the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT). By 2015, according to this analysis, the excise...
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