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American sign language interpreters engage in ground-breaking negotiations

Michael Applegate August 14, 2013November 22, 2014 0 comment

Bargaining on August 6 and 7 led to a flurry of agreements on language for articles to be contained in a first contract between Purple and CWA’s Pacific Media Workers Guild.

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Video Interpreters meet with FCC over VRS changes

Pacific Media Workers Guild August 6, 2013November 22, 2014 0 comment

Video Interpreters met with Federal Communications Commission officials for the first time recently during a meeting arranged by CWA in response to proposed reforms to the video relay system.

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Purple Communications bargaining bulletin #7

Pacific Media Workers Guild June 25, 2013November 22, 2014 0 comment

Union represented ASL interpreters and Purple Communications came to an agreement on two more key building blocks for a contract during the latest bargaining session.

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ASL VIs testify about union busting before NLRB

Pacific Media Workers Guild June 18, 2013November 22, 2014 0 comment

Four ASL video interpreters provided evidence at an NLRB hearing of how far Purple Communications was willing to go to block workers from exercising their right to form a union.

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Purple Communications Bargaining Bulletin #6

Michael Applegate June 12, 2013November 22, 2014 0 comment

Three days of negotiations over the past week led to a few new agreements and a much better understanding of key remaining issues for the bargaining teams.

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Guild receives CWA organizing award for Purple Communications

Michael Applegate April 23, 2013November 22, 2014 0 comment

At the CWA convention in Pittsburgh, our guild received a special organizing award for our recent addition of Purple Communications, a large multi-state unit of sign language interpreters.

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Talks begin for new Purple Communications ASL interpreter unit

Michael Applegate March 6, 2013November 22, 2014 0 comment

In an historic first, representatives of Purple Communications met with a Pacific Media Workers Guild Local 39521 bargaining team in a San Francisco hotel yesterday. The meeting kicked off negotiations for a labor agreement to cover Purple’s Video Interpreters in the Arizona, Denver, Oakland and San Diego centers.

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