Oct 12, 2012
Vice President Joe Biden spoke up for the middle class during last night’s debate. He stood with the 47 percent -- seniors, students, working families and military veterans. He tore apart the Romney-Ryan plan to hold middle-class tax cuts hostage in order to secure massive tax breaks for the wealthy, and the vice president outlined a brighter future for the people Romney said he did “not need to worry” about.
Oct 12, 2012
Senate rules reform didn’t make it into last night’s lively vice presidential debate. But Rep. Paul Ryan did offer a bit of revisionist history.
Oct 11, 2012
One hot-button issue, threatening to forever paralyze America’s democratic system, is being largely ignored on the campaign trail: Filibuster reform.
Oct 9, 2012
National Journal's Influence Alley reports that CWA is up today with ads targeting two Republican House candidates for not supporting union-backed legislation to penalize companies that off-shore call center jobs.
Oct 4, 2012
During last night’s presidential debate, President Obama said he’s working to kill the tax breaks that are encouraging corporations to move good American jobs abroad. Mitt Romney retorted that the president was talking nonsense. Who is right?
Oct 3, 2012
Changing the Senate rules to reduce partisan gridlock is a hot-button issue inside the Beltway and on the campaign trail.
Oct 3, 2012
Today, T-Mobile USA announced plans to merge with MetroPCS, a deal that could lead to serious job losses. Here are five things you need to know about MetroPCS.
Oct 2, 2012
Today a judge suspended Pennsylvania’s controversial voter ID law, ordering the state not to enforce the ID requirement in the upcoming presidential election. That means that all citizens, whether or not they have an official photo ID, will be able to vote without being forced to cast a provisional ballot.
Sep 21, 2012
Mitt Romney must be getting desperate.
The GOP presidential contender can’t even seem to muster supporters to appear in his campaign ads. His latest ad attacking President Obama for allegedly being an enemy of the coal industry features coal miners whose boss made their attendance at a Romney rally mandatory and unpaid.
“I think he's got himself in a spot where he'll use anybody,” said CWA President Larry Cohen on The Ed Show. “Whether he makes comments about, I wish I was Latino, or whether he pretends to be supporting working people when, in fact, those workers … weren't paid, when he uses actors instead of workers, themselves.”
Sep 19, 2012
Today, CWA reached a tentative agreement with Verizon that protects the job and retirement security of 34,000 members from Virginia to Massachusetts. The details drive home that the current two-tier job structure in America is really between workers who have collective bargaining rights and those who don't.
"The tentative agreements meet our goal of maintaining the standard of living and employment security of Verizon members over the next three years and reaffirm the fact that workers’ bargaining rights are necessary to maintain the middle class in America,” said CWA President Larry Cohen.
It’s a sentiment that President Cohen repeated in an interview with The New York Times.
“Because of what’s going on in America, every employer, regardless of its financial wherewithal, believes it’s obligated to cut the costs of front-line employees,” he said. “But we held our own. This is an incredibly profitable company, and the reality of today in America is if you hold your own, that’s a victory.”
Sep 13, 2012
Google just picked the first Kansas City neighborhoods to get wired into its new fiber-optic network – leaving a handful of low-income communities stranded on the wrong side of the digital divide.
Sep 13, 2012
CWA President Larry Cohen recently talked to The America Prospect's Harold Meyerson about the future of America’s unions.
Sep 13, 2012
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Sep 12, 2012
Sep 12, 2012
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Sep 7, 2012
In his acceptance speech last night, President Obama detailed his long-term blueprint for America. What does it mean for workers?
