May 3, 2012
Thousands of CWA members, safety and health activists and other union members joined in vigils, rallied at state capitols for stronger workplace protections and held other events to mark Workers' Memorial Day on April 28.
May 1, 2012
U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis wrote a Viewpoint for the McClatchy-Tribune on April 26, 2012.
May 1, 2012
USW Health, Safety & Environment Department and Tony Mazzocchi Center Digest, 4/23/2012
Apr 26, 2012
CWA members will join workers around the nation on Saturday in remembering those who've died or been seriously injured on the job.
Apr 3, 2012
USW Health, Safety & Environment Department and Tony Mazzocchi Center Digest, 3/26/2012
Apr 3, 2012
Minutes of the CWA District 4 Occupational Safety and Health Conference Call conducted on Thursday, January 5, 2012.
Mar 22, 2012
Federal officials slapped Verizon with a heavy fine Monday for "repeat and serious" workplace safety violations linked to the death of technician Douglas Lalima, a member of CWA Local 1109, last fall.
Mar 21, 2012
At its March, 2011 meeting, the AFL-CIO Executive Council adopted the following statement calling for increased and aggressive actions to ensure U.S. employers provide workers with safe and healthful working conditions.
Mar 21, 2012
Led by the efforts of the New Jersey Work Environment Council, CWA, other unions, and our environmental allies, the U.S Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board has just issued an important policy to engage workers and union representatives during their investigations of major chemical accidents.
Mar 19, 2012
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced today that its investigation into the death of Verizon technician Douglas Lalima — who was electrocuted while working on a utility pole in Brooklyn last September — has resulted in 10 citations against Verizon and fines totaling $140,700 for serious and repeated failures by the company to abide by critical safety rules. The fines in the citation are the maximum penalties under the law for such egregious conduct.
Mar 19, 2012
More than 1,200 CWA and USW safety and health activists participated in the first USW/CWA National Health, Safety and Environment Conference conducted March 5-9, 2012 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Highlighting the conference activities was a panel presentation involving CWA President Larry Cohen and USW President Leo Gerard.
Feb 17, 2012
AT&T Premise Technician Andrel Reid has been on the job for just six months, but he will always remember his Feb. 1 visit to the Lansing, Mich., home of customer Christine Duffy. The Local 4034 member was dispatched to fix Duffy's U-verse service, but he ended up saving the life of Duffy's four-month old baby girl.
Jan 23, 2012
This precedent-setting ruling supports CWA’s position that Verizon’s Safety Policy/Accident Plan is arbitrary and capricious- intended to be used as a method to control and intimidate Company employees. If CWA leaders and members should witness or know of Company behavior identified in this case, they should notify their Local Union president, and/or CWA Staff as well as the Union’s Occupational Safety and Health Department.
Jan 12, 2012
Registration is open for the 2012 CWA/USW Health and Safety Conference in Pittsburgh, Pa., March 5-9. This year's conference, hosted jointly every other year by CWA and the Steelworkers, focuses on identifying workplace hazards and will offer workshops on hazard mapping, heat stress, ergonomics, hazardous materials and other topics.
Jan 9, 2012
Minutes of the CWA District 3 Occupational Safety and Health Conference Call conducted on Thursday, December 1, 2011.
Jan 5, 2012
The University of California and a UCLA professor are facing unprecedented felony charges in connection with a chemistry lab fire that fatally injured UPTE-CWA Local 9119 member Sheri Sangji three years ago.
Nov 18, 2011
Some 500 CWA and USW health and safety activists participated in the unions’ second and third 2011 regional occupational health, safety, and environment conferences conducted September 11-16 in Atlanta, Georgia and September 25-30 in Phoenix, Arizona. Inspired by CWA President Larry Cohen remarks at the Atlanta conference and District 7 Vice President Mary Taylor’s presentation in Phoenix which focused upon integrating workplace and environmental health and safety issues into the Union’s movement building efforts, activists enthusiastically involved themselves in the conference activities.
Nov 18, 2011
Minutes of the CWA District 6 Occupational Safety and Health Conference Call conducted on Thursday, September 1, 2011.
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