Aug 25, 2011
Click Here: A Workers’ Roundup of the Web’s Best
This week's featured links.
Aug 18, 2011
Every Pro-Union Senator Reelected in Wisconsin Recall Elections
Thanks to tremendous get-out-the-vote efforts by CWAers and working families in Wisconsin, every Democratic senator was reelected in the series of recall elections prompted by Gov. Scott Walker's efforts, with Republicans, to strip workers of their bargaining rights.
Aug 18, 2011
CWA Members & Retirees Holding Congress Accountable
In August and September, CWA members and retirees across the country are attending congressional town halls, visiting members of Congress at their district offices, and leafleting workplaces to hold Congress accountable for their votes on issues critical to workers and the middle class.
Aug 11, 2011
CWAers Holding Lawmakers Accountable
So far in August, hundreds of CWA activists have taken part in more than 50 separate "Accountability Actions" aimed at holding members of Congress accountable for their votes on workers' rights and preserving the middle-class.
Aug 4, 2011
With 1 Day to Go, Verizon Presses Contract Demands
With the clock on a fair contract for 43,000 Verizon East workers running out at midnight, Saturday Aug. 6, the company has refused to budge from retrogressive bargaining proposals that it knows would be soundly rejected by CWA and IBEW-represented workers.
Aug 4, 2011
15,000 Verizon Workers Jam NY City Streets for A Fair Contract
More than 15,000 Verizon workers and allies turned downtown New York City streets into a sea of red shirts last Saturday to fight the company's effort to gut decades of bargained for gains in pensions, health care, sick leave, pay and more.
Aug 4, 2011
CWA Activist Call Focuses on August Accountability Actions, Medicare
On August 4, thousands of CWA activists joined another "virtual union meeting" and talked about actions planned in the home districts of members of Congress in August and September.
Aug 4, 2011
Indiana CWAers Attend Hearing, Prepare to Fight ‘Right to Work’ Bill
Perched in the balcony of Indiana's Senate chamber last week, CWA Local 4900 members listened intently and prepared for their next big legislative fight as Republicans called a "study hearing" on right to work (for less) legislation. CWA's activism during the legislative session earlier this year helped shelve the anti-union bill temporarily, but opponents knew the battle wasn't over.
Jul 28, 2011
CWA Virtual Town Hall with Pelosi to Kick Off Action-Filled August
Kicking off an action-packed month in the battles to protect workers and retirees, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi will join CWA by phone for a virtual town hall meeting next Thursday, Aug. 4.
Jul 28, 2011
Tell Congress to Restore the FAA
In an outrageous attack on workers' rights that has furloughed 100,000 workers, House Republicans are refusing to reauthorize funding for the FAA unless the bill is stripped of provisions for fair and democratic union elections at airlines.
Jul 28, 2011
NY Retirees Protest Congresswoman’s Medicare, Social Security Votes
Several CWA retirees got a jump start on August Accountability Month, joining a coalition of activists last week at the office of a New York congresswoman who voted for the Paul Ryan budget and its attacks on Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
Jul 21, 2011
Historic March for Jobs and Justice Set for Aug. 27 on National Mall
A massive march for jobs and justice on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., will cap an action-filled August as CWA members and allies nationwide fight for workers at town hall meetings, rallies and festivals.
Jul 21, 2011
L.A.-Area Members Help Send Pro-Worker Candidate to Congress
Making phone calls and going door to door, CWA Legislative Political Action Team activists in southern California helped seal last Tuesday's victory for Democrat Janice Hahn in a special election to fill an open seat in the U.S. House.
Jul 21, 2011
Wisconsin Voters Stand With Workers in Historic Recall Elections
The tireless efforts of union members and broad coalitions of allies in Wisconsin paid off for the second week in a row, as voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected the Republican attempt to recall Democratic state Sen. Dave Hansen.
Jul 21, 2011
Town Halls: ‘It’s Essential to Tell Them How Their Decisions Affect Us’
As CWA members across the country gear up for town hall meetings when federal lawmakers head home in August, Minnesota activists are getting good practice at holding legislators accountable.
Jul 21, 2011
Officials Certify Triple the Signatures Needed for Ohio Referendum
It's official: The Ohio petition drive to let voters decide the fate of the state's new anti-union law gathered 915,456 valid signatures — more than three times the number required.
Jul 21, 2011
Click Here: A Workers’ Roundup of the Web’s Best
"Corporate America's Chokehold on Wages," is the latest from Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson, one of the media's strongest voices for unions and workers' rights. "If you're wondering why American consumers are still flat on their backs... the answer is both fundamental and simple: It's not just that so many of them are unemployed. The ones who are employed are also underpaid," Meyerson writes.
Jul 14, 2011
Rep. George Miller: ‘All of Us Together Will Win This Fight’
Firing up CWA convention delegates Monday, one of Capitol Hill's truest champions for workers and their rights condemned the anti-union corporate ideology that is gripping Washington and threatening to strangle America's middle class.
Jul 14, 2011
Delegates Commit to Action, Alliance-Building to Fight Key Threats
From protecting Medicare to opposing the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, stopping voter suppression and battling state attacks on workers' rights, resolutions that CWA convention delegates passed this week had a central theme: Taking action and continuing to build a broad-based movement to fight back.
Jul 7, 2011
IUE-CWA Members Vote to Ratify General Electric Contract
With 70 percent "yes" votes, IUE-CWA members at General Electric have ratified the four-year contract that negotiators reached in June after four weeks of bargaining.
