Apr 21, 2011
Building on April 4's "We Are One" message, CWA is urging locals to join with immigrant rights activists in their communities for rallies and demonstrations across the country May 1.
Apr 21, 2011
Jeopardizing the wages and benefits of thousands of workers, the Oklahoma Senate voted this week to repeal a collective bargaining law for city employees that CWA helped draft and pass in 2004.
Apr 21, 2011
On what was "Tax Day" for ordinary Americans, CWA members in New York and New Jersey held rallies that targeted Verizon, Goldman Sachs, GE and other corporations that pay little or no federal income taxes.
Apr 14, 2011
Citing massive violations of workers' rights at Thomson Reuters, the NLRB is filing a complaint against the media company and for the first time is charging an employer with illegally restricting its employees' right to use Twitter to communicate about working conditions.
Apr 14, 2011
Research assistants at Stony Brook University in New York stood tough for 10 years, organizing, mobilizing and calling out management for trying to get rid of their union. Now, RAs have ratified their first contract.
Apr 14, 2011
More than 11,000 people rallied outside Ohio's statehouse Saturday, officially kicking off the campaign to repeal the state's new law stripping public workers of their collective bargaining rights.
Apr 14, 2011
Fighting to save vital public services and good jobs, Texas State Employee Union-CWA members turned out in force last week in Austin, some of them riding buses all night, for their biggest Lobby Day ever.
Apr 14, 2011
CWAers joined with thousands of union members, students, senior citizens and working families in Lansing, Mich., this week to rally against devastating budget proposals that would slash vital services, raise taxes on those who can least afford it and give a $1.8 billion tax break to businesses.
Apr 14, 2011
As national, state and corporate attacks on unions intensify, CWA and the AFL-CIO are asking locals to make it an "immediate priority" to join and participate in their communities' central labor councils.
Apr 7, 2011
Embracing the April 4 movement proposed by CWA just a few weeks earlier, hundreds of thousands of people across the country made their voices heard Monday in their workplaces, their communities and outside businesses and government buildings in the intensifying national fight for workers' rights and economic justice.
Apr 7, 2011
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's radical anti-worker agenda backfired on him Tuesday, as angry citizens turned out in droves to vote out a state Supreme Court judge allied with Walker.
Apr 7, 2011
In Colombia, just 100,000 workers out of 20 million have bargaining rights.
Apr 7, 2011
Bowing to airline executives angry about new democratic rules for union elections, the U.S. House defeated a bipartisan amendment last week intended to preserve the important changes the National Mediation Board made last year.
Apr 7, 2011
Seeking respect and basic benefits, including sick leave and vacation time, 156 workers at Dosha Salon and Spa in Portland voted 79-66 for CWA Local 7901 in a hard-fought, 18-month campaign.
Apr 7, 2011
As part of CWA's ongoing effort to build alliances, CWA Executive Vice President Annie Hill met recently with two key members of Congress who are strong workers' rights advocates.
Apr 7, 2011
Have you paid your 2010 taxes yet? On a percentage basis, you're certainly paying more than the most profitable U.S. companies, and in some cases you're literally paying more.
Apr 1, 2011
The House of Representatives voted against fairness today, by moving to count non-voters as "no votes" in union representation elections in the airline and transportation industries.
Mar 31, 2011
Georgia Congressman John Lewis, who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960s, joined CWA's third virtual town hall meeting Tuesday night, building excitement for the nationwide events on Monday, April 4, and the ongoing battle for workers' rights.
Mar 31, 2011
Across our country on April 4, working people and allies from the civil rights movement, the religious community, student groups and many more are standing together for the rights of all workers to bargain for a middle-class life, our right to a voice in the political process and the respect that all people deserve.
Mar 31, 2011
The White House has said that the Obama Administration would veto legislation that would strip airline and other transportation workers of their right to have democratic union representation elections.
