Civil Rights and Equity

Jun 20, 2011

CWA: The Facts Support AT&T/T-Mobile Merger

Final FCC Comment Filing Deadline Offers Opportunity to Review Positives of Proposed ATT-TMO Merger, Including Expanding Broadband Access and Benefits to Consumers and Workers

May 19, 2011

Missouri CWAers, Coalition Stop Legislature’s Anti-Union Bills

A hugely successful phone bank helped Missouri CWAers send lawmakers home empty-handed last Friday, the end of a legislative session that began with the Republican majority pledging to pass a laundry list of anti-union, anti-worker bills.

May 19, 2011

March on Wall Street Puts Spotlight on Income Gap, Harmful Budget Cuts

About 20,000 people from a broad coalition of unions and community groups, including scores of red-shirted CWA members, marched on Wall Street last Thursday to decry the vast and growing income inequality that is even worse in New York City than the country as a whole.

May 12, 2011

Cohen Testimony: AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Good for Consumers, Workers

Emphasizing the accelerated growth of high-speed broadband and other benefits for consumers and workers, CWA President Larry Cohen testified Wednesday on Capitol Hill in support of the proposed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile.

May 12, 2011

Diverse ‘Stand Up’ Coalition Keeps Momentum Strong in Ohio

A diverse crowd of fed-up Ohioans rallied at the statehouse May 5 to further their campaign to overturn the new law eliminating collective bargaining rights for public workers, and to fight other legislative and budget attacks that are targeting everyone but the rich.

May 5, 2011

Coalitions Grow, Energy Builds as Workers, Allies Unite Nationwide

As many state and federal lawmakers try to crush workers' rights, CWA and its allies are rapidly building momentum and networks, as CWA's fourth "virtual town hall" phone call illustrated Tuesday night.

About 2,000 CWA members around the country listened as CWA leaders, AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka and four CWA activists updated campaigns to fight back, including more than 100 May Day events around the country last Sunday that brought together immigrant and workers' rights activists.

May 5, 2011

May Day Events Bring Workers, Immigrants Together in Fight for Rights

Continuing to build and expand coalitions of allies, CWA members in cities across the nation joined tens of thousands of people Sunday for May Day events that called for immigration reform and workers' rights.

In New York City, CWA District 1 President Chris Shelton addressed thousands of activists who rallied at Union Square and marched downtown to Foley Square.

May 5, 2011

Memphis Sanitation Workers Inducted Into Labor Hall of Fame

President Obama meets at the White House with eight surviving Memphis sanitation workers whose 1968 strike changed labor history. The 1,300 strikers were inducted into the DOL's Labor Hall of Fame on April 28. "

The 1,300 Memphis sanitation workers whose 1968 strike changed history and showed Americans that workers' rights are human rights have been inducted into the Labor Hall of Fame.

The April 29 ceremony marked the first time the U.S. Department of Labor has inducted a group of workers into the Hall of Fame. Normally the honor is reserved for individuals.

May 5, 2011

Vermont Proud to Be First State on Verge of Universal Health Care

As other states fixate on ways to take rights, services and benefits away from people, Vermont's legislature has boldly passed the nation's first single-payer bill to provide affordable health care for all Vermonters.

CWA members testified, rallied and helped educate the public about the bill, which removes from employers the costly burden of providing health insurance.

"We want health care to follow the individual and not be a requirement of the employer, which we think will be a huge jobs creator," said Gov. Pete Shumlin, speaking on the Rachel Maddow show. He said Vermont wants to be the first state to "treat health care as a right and not a privilege."

May 5, 2011

Workers Killed, Hurt on the Job Honored on Workers’ Memorial Day

From Boston to Sacramento, hundreds of Workers' Memorial Day events last Thursday brought together union members and other activists to honor and mourn working people killed or injured on the job.

Memorial events reminded workers that 2011 marks the 40th anniversary of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, whose oversight has greatly reduced safety and health risks at U.S. workplaces.

Apr 28, 2011

CWA Human Rights Department Urges Support of the May Day “We Are One” Message on May 1st

America was built in significant part with the hands of immigrant workers, workers with a dream. Regardless of country of origin, men and women from around the world have committed themselves to the cause of equality and freedom while working to build strong communities.

Apr 28, 2011