Mar 29, 2012
99 Percent Spring/Challenging Corporate Power Trains Activist Leaders
Occupy Wall Street-inspired activists are gearing up to lead demonstrations and resistance as part of "99 Percent Spring/Challenging Corporate Power."
Mar 29, 2012
CWA Members Plan Actions for Verizon Annual Meeting
CWA activists are planning actions around Verizon's annual shareholder meeting to bring attention to corporate greed and economic inequality.
Mar 29, 2012
March 22 Was a Warm-Up to Shareholder Spring
March 22 was a great day of rallies and leafleting across the country, with CWA members joined by members of many different unions, Jobs with Justice, Occupiers and other supporters.
Mar 29, 2012
Maryland CWAers Protest Verizon Power Grab
More than 40 CWA and RMC members from seven CWA locals filled the hearing room of the Maryland Senate Finance Committee with a sea of red shirts this week. Their mission: to spotlight a bill that would allow Verizon to sell its landline assets without any review by the Public Service Commission.
Mar 22, 2012
99 Percent Spring/Challenging Corporate Power Is Coming
CWA activists are headed to spring training. Next month, 2,000 CWA activists will be attending training to lead nonviolent, direct protests aimed at reigniting the enthusiasm and passion of Occupy Wall Street and Wisconsin uprisings. CWA joins more than 60 progressive groups — collectively called the 99 Percent Spring — that will be training a total of 100,000 activists at 700 trainings in 48 states.
Mar 22, 2012
Find Out More About 99 Percent Spring/Challenging Corporate Power
During CWA's union hall call on March 22, we heard reports from the National Day of Solidarity for Verizon Workers and we talked about the next step: participating in the 99 Percent Spring training program.
Mar 15, 2012
Are You Ready for March 22?
There's still time to find an event in your community and join in the National Day of Action, that hits "1 percent" Verizon for its corporate greed, and brings union and progressive activists together to stand up for each other's fights on March 22.
Mar 15, 2012
AFL-CIO Endorses Re-election of President Obama
Meeting this week, the AFL-CIO Executive Council endorsed the re-election of President Obama, stressing that the President "honors the values of hard work, of mutual respect and of solving problems together — not every person for himself or herself...Each of the Republican presidential candidates, on the other hand, has pledged to uphold the special privileges of Wall Street and the 1% — privileges that have produced historic economic inequality and drowned out the voices of working people in America."
Mar 15, 2012
CWAers Stand Strong for Immigrant, Voting Rights in Alabama
CWA members and leaders made the week-long march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., last week, ending in a big rally on the steps of the state capitol.
Mar 15, 2012
CWA Expands Awareness Program on Threat to Democracy Caused by Corporate Dollars in Politics
The Communications Workers of America (CWA) is expanding its national program to educate 700,000 members and their families about the threat to our democracy posed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling. That ruling allows corporations to contribute unlimited money to political campaigns because the court determined that corporations also have free speech and other rights that individuals are granted by the U.S. Constitution. CWA’s continued commitment comes as the national AFL-CIO passed a statement endorsing action to overturn the Citizens United ruling at its winter meeting in Orlando, Florida.
Mar 8, 2012
In Alabama, Voting Rights, Civil Rights Still Under Attack
About 125 CWA members and leaders from Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and other states, are a big part of this week's Selma to Montgomery, Ala., march and rally.
Mar 1, 2012
Cohen: Movement Building for Economic Justice and Democracy
Achieving workers' rights and economic justice, addressing climate change and creating good-paying, sustainable jobs all depend on fixing our broken democracy, CWA President Larry Cohen told participants, including a large group of CWAers, at the Good Jobs Green Jobs conference in Atlanta last week.
Feb 9, 2012
Vote on FAA Reauthorization is Attack on Workers’ Bargaining Rights
The 157 House and 15 Senate Democrats who voted no on the Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization made it clear: democracy isn't a choice between jobs and workers' rights.
Feb 6, 2012
CWA: Senate Vote on FAA Reauthorization Caves in to Minority’s Ideological Agenda
With today's vote, the Senate has caved in to the ideological agenda of House Speaker John Boehner and used the FAA Reauthorization process to destroy workers' rights and democracy. .
Feb 3, 2012
Activists ‘Stand Up, Fight Back’ at CWA Leg-Pol Conference
More than 700 CWA activists covered Capitol Hill as part of CWA's Legislative-Political conference in Washington. Their message to senators, representatives and staff: we're fighting back to restore democracy and economic justice for working families. CWA activists visited more than 350 congressional offices.
Jan 26, 2012
Indiana House Passes Right to Work (for Less)
CWA activists and union supporters are keeping up the fight against union busting in Indiana, despite the House passing "right to work" (for less) by a 55-44 vote yesterday.
Jan 19, 2012
Labor to Cuomo: Keep up the Fight for Public Financing of Elections
Adding new momentum in the fight to clean up Albany, the presidents of three national labor unions are commending New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for his leadership in pressing for public funding of elections in the state, and urging him to keep up the fight.
In a letter to the Governor, the presidents of the UAW, SEIU and Communications Workers of America write that “uniting us all is a commitment to the idea that all workers deserve a voice and that in a democracy, wealth should not determine political powers. The status quo systems of elections in New York, with their sky-high donation limits and lack of public matching funds, undermine these principles.”
Jan 13, 2012
A Movement Moment: Growing Support for Overturning Citizens United
CWA is first union to join United For the People, to fight back against corporate money and corporate control in politics.
Jan 12, 2012
High-Impact Campaign Fighting Indiana ‘Right to Work’ Bill
With a campaign that is flooding the Indiana statehouse with thousands of activists every day, CWA and other unions are determined to stop Republican leaders from ramming an anti-union "right-to-work" bill through the legislature.
Jan 5, 2012
Unions Ready for Battle as Indiana GOP Rushes to Pass ‘Right-to-Work’
As Indiana's 2012 legislative session opened Jan. 4, CWA members were among thousands of workers who packed the capitol and chanted "Union!" to protest the Republican leadership's renewed and rapid push to pass an anti-union "right-to-work" law.
