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Communications Union Says GD Employees Allege Wage Theft At Federal Call Centers

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, April 23rd, 2018

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Communications Union Says GD Employees Allege Wage Theft At Federal Call Centers

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A union that represents communications workers across the U.S. on Monday said that so far this year more than 2,000 current and former employees at a General Dynamics’ [GD] business have complained to the Department of Labor about wage violations at federal call centers run by the company.The Communications Workers of America said that workers at five federal contract call centers filed new wage theft complaints this week. The allegations include underpayment and misclassification of workers by GD’s Information Technology…

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