Nov 16, 2012
CWA Helps Turn Another Red House Seat Blue
Resistance Growing
Nov 9, 2012
Cohen: We Voted For Growth
Faced with a looming fiscal catastrophe, Americans must make the same choice they did on Election Day: Growth over austerity.
“We’re going to have to stand up across America and say, ‘No you’re not going to cut our Social Security.’ People who make over $250,000 a year can pay a little bit more, not a lot,” said CWA President Larry Cohen on The Ed Schultz Show this afternoon. “We can look after small business. That argument that Republicans raise is just to be divisive. We voted for growth, and we’re going to fight for growth.”
Cohen said that we often forget that Medicare and Medicaid are tied to growth. “We cut consumption, there will be no growth in this economy,” he said.
Listen to the rest of the interview here.
Nov 7, 2012
Ending Washington Gridlock
It’s going to be a new day in the Senate. Seven Democratic senators elect — Tammy Baldwin (WI), Martin Heinrich (NM), Heidi Heitkamp (ND), Mazie Hirono (HI), Tim Kaine (VA), Chris Murphy (CT) and Elizabeth Warren (MA) — have all committed to “fix the broken Senate by reforming the filibuster.” Independent Angus King, who replaces Maine’s moderate Republican Olympia Snowe, won on his platform of reforming the filibuster. Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell (WA) pledged to work to change filibuster rules in her third term. And on election night, Majority Whip Dick Durbin (IL) stressed the need for reform.
Nov 5, 2012
Countdown To Election Day
In a frenetic burst of activity – just hours before Election Day – CWA activists across battleground states are making their final pitch for President Obama, candidates in key state races and critical ballot initiatives. This election cycle, CWA has been focused on one-on-one, member-to-member contacts. Nearly 15,000 volunteers have phone banked, participated in labor walks and leafleted 3,000 worksites. “We try to root the political work we do, not in a party or in a candidate, but around what we call economic justice issues and democracy issues and how they’re linked,” said CWA President Larry Cohen on The Richard Fowler Show.
Nov 5, 2012
Why I’m An Activist: Joe Mayhew
Nov 1, 2012
Why I’m An Activist: Jeanne Stewart
Oct 31, 2012
Workers Aren’t Buying ‘Car Guy’s’ Lies
America does not need a businessman in the White House – especially one that lies, distorts the facts and has zero credibility among the country’s leading auto manufacturers.
Oct 29, 2012
Veterans Group Exposes George Allen
With help from CWA, VoteVets.org is airing a new ad warning Virginians about Senate candidate George Allen’s extremist views.
"There are over 800,000 veterans like me living in Virginia, and time and again George Allen has turned his back on us,” says the ad’s narrator. “He voted to let health care premiums triple for three million military retirees. He voted against billions for veterans care. And George Allen said, 'Whatever the government program is, no matter how essential it is, it is a waste.' If George Allen thinks veterans' programs are a waste, maybe voting for him is the real waste."
Watch and share it now.
Oct 26, 2012
Cohen: ‘Corporate Campaigning At Work Is Not Free Speech’
Today CWA President Larry Cohen spoke out against the disturbing trend of voter coercion in the workplace, as more and more corporations tell their employees which politicians they should cast a ballot for in the upcoming election.
Oct 25, 2012
Cohen: Beware Of ‘Fairy Tale Capitalism’
CWA President Larry Cohen went on The Ed Show last night to discuss the campaign in Ohio, what CWA activists are doing to overcome voter suppression and the fight to reelect President Obama to a second term.
Cohen said workers, whether they’re in telecommunications or manufacturing, understand that difference between “going backwards into fairy tale capitalism” and forward with the president.
“We will see Sherrod Brown, Barack Obama win on Election Day by significant margins in Ohio because working Americans won't be fooled, know the difference,” he said. “Nobody's going to keep them from voting, and those votes will count. Every vote will count. We need that enthusiasm going into Election Day."
Oct 24, 2012
Why I Fight: Freddy Lopez
Oct 23, 2012
Five Takeaways From The Final Presidential Debate
Much to the vexation of moderator Bob Schieffer, last night’s presidential debate on foreign policy kept swerving towards America’s issues at home. Here are the five things workers need to know about the final faceoff.
Oct 22, 2012
Behind The Contract: John Desm On Building 90 NYC Buses
CWA Local 7304 President John C. Desm gives us the inside scoop on how CWA collaboration saved 114 union jobs and aided a contract to build 90 heavy-duty clean diesel buses for New York City.
Oct 19, 2012
Meet Felipe Gutierrez
Felipe Gutierrez, legislative chair of CWA Local 6201, is reporting from the frontlines of the 2012 election. As the Texas-based community journalist for Voting Rights Watch 2012, a collaboration between The Nation and Colorlines.com, Gutierrez is the “eyes and ears on the ground in communities where voters are being threatened by intimidation, dubious purges, cut-offs to early voting, and voter ID schemes.”
Oct 18, 2012
Romney Encourages Captive Audience Meetings
Labor Journalist Mike Elk just uncovered a conference call featuring Mitt Romney encouraging the anti-union National Federation of Independent Business to tell their employees how to vote in November.
Oct 17, 2012
Fact Check: Getting Tough On China
There was a lot of talk about China at last night’s second presidential debate.
Oct 17, 2012
Romney Doesn’t Understand Women – Or The Workplace
Romney's comments about women show just how out of touch he is with what working people face on the job.
Oct 17, 2012
Romney’s Binders Full Of Women
Oct 16, 2012
The Choice for the Middle Class
Find out what CWA members in Virginia have to say about the upcoming election.
