Dec 1, 2011
A powerful new video is helping intensify global support for embattled telecom workers at Atento Mexico, where managers in the past month have twice derailed opportunities for fair union elections.
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Nov 17, 2011
East Coast CWA members collectively put thousands of miles on their sneakers this week as they led multi-day marches to denounce the greed that is driving Verizon Communications and other hugely profitable corporations to destroy good jobs and, with them, America's middle class.
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Oct 27, 2011
Demanding justice at Atento Mexico, CWA President Larry Cohen and more than 150 other global labor leaders marched Friday through the streets of Mexico City with 1,500 call center workers fighting for fair union elections.
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Oct 20, 2011
With a focus on good jobs, fair taxes and other policies to rebuild America's middle class, CWA and other unions are helping the Occupy Wall Street movement grow, from Boston to Austin and cities up and down the West Coast.
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Oct 20, 2011
Activists around the globe are continuing to join the campaign for workers' rights at T-Mobile.
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Oct 12, 2011
The House of Representatives has passed the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, rewarding those who abuse workers' rights.
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Oct 6, 2011
Fighting for economic justice and good jobs to rebuild America's middle class, CWA members and thousands of other union members joined Occupy Wall Street demonstrators for a march in New York's financial district on Wednesday. CWA also participated in San Francisco and other cities as similar rallies and protests spread nationwide.
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Oct 6, 2011
As part of Customer Service Professionals Month this October, CWA has launched a new blog open to all customer service workers to share their accomplishments, frustrations and solutions.
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Oct 4, 2011
The Colombia Free Trade Agreement is flawed and should not be approved by Congress.
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Oct 1, 2011
10) To show our children we really can change the world, or at least our part of it.
9) To remind corporations and elected officials that ordinary people do make a difference.
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Sep 29, 2011
CWA members were among thousands of union activists joining rallies for embattled postal workers at nearly 500 locations Tuesday that covered every U.S. congressional district in every state.
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Sep 29, 2011
At a rally Sunday, CWA Local 1103 members in White Plains, N.Y., honored Martin Luther King, Jr., while furthering their fight for good jobs at Verizon and Verizon Wireless.
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Sep 28, 2011
Sprint’s opposition to the proposed AT&T/T-Mobile merger has been revealed to be nothing more than a classic bait-and-switch — with the Sprint CEO saying out of one side of his mouth the merger would hurt consumers — while talking out the other about buying T-Mobile for itself.
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Sep 22, 2011
Speaking to 10,000 delegates at the ver.di convention in Liepzig, Germany, CWA President Larry Cohen thanked ver.di members for their support and determination to help T-Mobile USA workers gain a union voice.
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Sep 15, 2011
Addressing Congress last Thursday, President Obama laid out a comprehensive bill for job creation and stressed his support for collective bargaining.
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Sep 1, 2011
Just as AT&T announced this week that it would return 5,000 wireless jobs to the United States following its pending merger with T-Mobile USA, the U.S. Justice Department announced it was seeking to block the deal.
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Sep 1, 2011
As bargaining with Verizon reconvened in Rye, N.Y., this week for 35,000 CWA members and 10,000 more at IBEW, negotiators went back to the table with a clear message: workers will not allow the company to destroy their collective bargaining rights or decades of hard-won progress made in past negotiations.
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Aug 25, 2011
Verizon workers returned to work this week stronger than ever in their fight for a fair contract, fortified by the bravery they showed in striking during a recession and by the public's strong embrace of their courage and solidarity.
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Aug 25, 2011
Outside a deli called "Grandma's" in Duluth, Minn., this week, chanting demonstrators — including some angry grandmas — shamed a GOP congressman who was charging people to attend his so-called town hall meeting inside.
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Aug 25, 2011
Following revelations that Colombia may have misused U.S. government aid to probe and undermine the activities of labor leaders and union activists, CWA President Larry Cohen and United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard are calling on the House Select Intelligence Committee to investigate the matter.
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