Mar 9, 2011
ver.di, the union representing more than 2 million workers in Germany, has contacted Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, urging him to “choose a constructive path and stand by the commitments that have already been set out in legally-negotiated collective agreements.”
ver.di and CWA are working together and have formed TU, a joint global union representing T-Mobile workers in Germany and the U.S. German workers and citizens are appalled by Deutsche Telekom’s double standard: T-Mobile workers in Germany have full bargaining rights and workers’ rights are respected by management, contrary to the fear and harassment workers face in the U.S.
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Mar 3, 2011
The voice of the labor movement and its allies will roar louder than ever on April 4, the anniversary of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., when "it will not be business as usual at workplaces and communities across this nation," CWA President Larry Cohen said Wednesday.
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Mar 3, 2011
The Ohio Senate this week approved Gov. John Kasich's union-busting bill, but the 17-16 vote in the heavy Republican chamber was closer than expected before the rallies and protests that drew tens of thousands of workers to the capitol and to events across the state.
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Mar 3, 2011
The AFL-CIO Executive Council announced March 2 that it is joining with CWA and other global unions in their campaign to help T-Mobile USA workers "win their basic labor rights, gain a voice on the job, and bargain for a better life."
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Feb 17, 2011
The global union movement has joined with CWA and ver.di, the union representing German workers at T-Mobile and parent company Deutsche Telekom, to press DT to end its double standard of supporting workers' rights in Europe but completely opposing them in the United States.
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Feb 17, 2011
In a show of outrage and solidarity, CWA members joined other unions Wednesday to protest Mexico's violations of workers' rights.
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Feb 16, 2011
The global union movement, the International Trade Union Confederation, has announced it is launching a major global campaign to convince Deutsche Telekom to end its attack on workers' rights in the U.S. and allow T-Mobile USA workers the right to join a union.
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Feb 15, 2011
CWA is urgently calling on Congress to extend key improvements to the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA), the program that provides aid to workers whose jobs have been outsourced overseas.
Without action by Congress, the improvements to TAA, passed as part of the 2009 economic recovery package and extended in December, will expire this weekend. CWA President Larry Cohen has called on every member of Congress to act.
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Jan 20, 2011
Members of the International Trade Union Confederation and Council of Global Unions are meeting with U.S. union leaders this week in Washington, focusing on ways to support international organizing campaigns and take on multinational companies.
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Nov 12, 2010
The international union community is standing strong with T-Mobile workers worldwide who want a union voice and want parent company Deutsche Telekom (DT) to end its double standard when it comes to workers' organizing and bargaining rights.
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Nov 10, 2010
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is the only international human rights treaty to focus exclusively on the rights of women. To date, it has only been ratified 186 of 193 countries worldwide. Sadly missing, like Iran, Somalia and Sudan, is the United States. The treaty protects fundamental rights, addressing violence against women, the right to vote, sex trafficking, and access to education among other important issues to women.
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Nov 4, 2010
The AFL-CIO and Mexico’s independent labor federation UNT, Unión Nacional de Trabajadores, have signed a joint action plan to help rebuild the industrial base in the United States and Mexico, ensure workers’ rights and coordinate bargaining across borders. The agreement builds on years of joint work between U.S. and Mexican unions, in particular, CWA’s long working relationship with STRM, the independent union of telephone workers.
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Oct 7, 2010
CWAers had a great day on Oct 2 at the One Nation Working Together March in Washington. CWA red was the dominant color --it was everywhere.
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Oct 1, 2010
At the Lincoln Memorial, more than 10,000 CWAers were a sea of red. We are One Nation with civil rights and community activists, teachers, environmentalists, members of faith groups and many more. We know our voices can’t be ignored and on Nov. 2, we’ll be One Nation Working Together again, and will elect leaders who will support the fight for jobs, justice and an economy that works for all.
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Sep 30, 2010
A lead inside organizer who continues to face a tough fight for a voice at work will be among the speakers, musicians, poets and comedians who will inspire and entertain hundreds of thousands of progressive Americans under sunny skies Saturday at Washington's One Nation rally.
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Sep 23, 2010
Nine days to go! CWA is counting down to the Oct. 2 One Nation Working Together rally in Washington, where thousands of CWAers will gather at the Lincoln Memorial with hundreds of thousands of others to call for good jobs, bargaining rights, government that works and other issues critical to working families.
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Sep 16, 2010
Just 16 days 'til hundreds of thousands of union members and progressive activists fill the mall in front of the Lincoln Memorial for the One Nation rally.
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Sep 9, 2010
One Nation allies in New Jersey held a kickoff news conference and event this week at the State House. CWA's New Jersey coordinator Lionel Leach and District 1 Vice President Chris Shelton were on hand; check out the video at http://event.playonsports.com/widget.html?eventId=11985.
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Sep 3, 2010
If you're in Minneapolis-St. Paul next Tuesday, join our AFA-CWA brothers and sisters in picketing outside Compass Airlines.
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Sep 2, 2010
Human Rights Watch has called out Deutsche Telekom/T-Mobile and several other European companies for violating workers' rights in the U.S., while maintaining positive labor relations with unions and workers in their home countries.
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