Management at United Way Worldwide has agreed to card check recognition and neutrality in future organizing drives among staffers at its Arlington, Va., headquarters. The News Guild-CWA crafted the pact with the United Way after the Washington-Baltimore News Guild, TNG-CWA Local 32035, hit unexpected anti-union resistance from hired UWW managers (not the local United Way of the National Capital Area) after agency staffers approached the Guild. Local 32035 already represents a small unit of UWW headquarters staffers. Reports of the resistance upset several major union UWW backers; its worldwide board includes AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and the U.S. board includes AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Tefere Gebre, Letter Carriers President Fredric Rolando and AFT Executive Vice President Mary Cathryn Ricker.
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