Apr 29, 2013
CWA President Cohen Arrested in St. Louis at Peabody Coal Demonstration
In St. Louis today, leaders from the labor movement, community organizations and religious groups stood up to Peabody Coal and its unfair attack on retired workers.
Apr 18, 2013
Bipartisan Immigration Bill is a First Step
U.S. Senators known as the “Gang of Eight,” four Democrats and four Republicans who have been working on immigration reform, have released a bill that is a first step toward much needed reform of our broken immigration system.
Apr 18, 2013
We Need Good Jobs, Green Jobs
The fight for workers’ rights is strongly linked to fight for environmental rights.
Apr 11, 2013
Let’s Get to Work: Climate Change, Infrastructure and Innovation
Next week more than 1,600 union members and environmentalists from around the country will be discussing economic, environmental and democracy issues at the BlueGreen Alliance's annual Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference in Washington, DC.
Mar 7, 2013
Congress, CWA Call on FCC to Protect Jobs in T-Mobile-MetroPCS Merger
CWA and dozens of House Democrats are urging the Federal Communications Commission to impose job-protection conditions on the proposed T-Mobile-MetroPCS merger.
Feb 14, 2013
Working Families Say ‘Jobs, Not Cuts!’
More than 1,500 activists flooded Capitol Hill Tuesday, rallying against deep cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Feb 7, 2013
Jobs Not Cuts!
On Feb. 12, CWA will be joining AFGE, AFSCME and workers from across the country to tell Congress to stop the attacks on working families and to start making everyone pay their fair share.
Aug 16, 2012
CWA Launches Election Year Campaign to Stop Call Offshoring
CWA launched a campaign Tuesday to spotlight legislation incentivizing American corporations to keep call center jobs in the United States.
Jul 26, 2012
Cohen, Solis Rally Workers To Bring Jobs Home
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and CWA President Larry Cohen on Tuesday rallied California labor activists around one simple message: Bring Jobs Home!
Jul 26, 2012
CWA Study: Verizon Wireless – Big Cable Deal is a Job Killer
A new CWA report finds that the proposed deal between Verizon Wireless and big cable companies will cost workers and communities as many as 72,000 lost jobs if approved.
May 31, 2012
Cohen Calls for Defense of Democracy
To fix America’s jobs crisis, there first must be a mass political movement to restore democracy, CWA President Larry Cohen said last week.
May 15, 2012
American Airlines Agents Press NMB to Move Forward on Union Election
More than 23,000 agents and supporters sign petition calling on the NMB to enforce the law.
May 3, 2012
RNC Attacks President Obama on Unemployment… from Overseas Call Center
CWA Chief of Staff Ron Collins: “Hard to imagine anything more hypocritical than the RNC making calls about U.S. unemployment from a Verizon foreign call center.”
May 3, 2012
CWA: American Airlines Tries an End Run Around the Law
Washington, D.C. -- Following is a statement by Larry Cohen, president of the Communications Workers of America, on the continued effort by American Airlines to stop workers’ from having a fair vote on union representation: “Just when working people thought they’d seen it all, American Airlines makes an even more outrageous play. The latest outrage is a lawsuit the company filed May 2, in which American Airlines seeks to rewrite aviation legislation and substitute its own agenda for that of Congress, so it can stop nearly 10,000 passenger service agents from having a union voice.
Apr 20, 2012
CWAers Join Nationwide Protest Against Corporate Tax Dodgers
On April 17, Tax Day, across the country, activists from CWA and other unions, the AFL-CIO, Move On and other members of the 99% Spring coalition called on corporations and the 1% to pay their fair share in taxes.
Apr 12, 2012
99 Percent Spring/Challenging Corporate Power Kicks Off Teach-Ins
This week, 99 Percent Spring/Challenging Corporate Power — a large coalition of progressive organizations, from Greenpeace to Occupiers to CWA — began training 100,000 people across the country to tell the story of how America's economy collapsed and the history of non-violent direct action. These teach-ins will give participants the tools to launch their own progressive actions and campaigns for change.
Mar 22, 2012
Growing Support for Bills Penalizing Offshoring Call Center Jobs
Several bills that would penalize American companies for moving their call center jobs overseas are gaining momentum.
Mar 8, 2012
Help Keep Good Call Center Jobs in the U.S.
Legislation to keep call center jobs here in the U.S. now has 75 co-sponsors, with more members of Congress expected to sign on in the next few weeks.
Mar 7, 2012
Communications Workers of America Tells FCC To Reject Media Ownership Rule Changes
The Communications Workers of America and its media sectors are urging the Federal Communications Commission to reject changes to broadcast media ownership rules unless the outcome will encourage greater diversity and competition in news coverage and other local programming.
