Jun 30, 2011
The Blue Green Alliance (BGA) in coordination with its members, the Communications Workers of America (CWA), the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has released an updated version of its landmark 2010 report “Networking the Green Economy,” urging policy makers to create an environment that allows for long term public and private investment in high-speed broadband to build more sustainable communities in rural and urban America.
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Jun 30, 2011
CWA Local 3010 members at two subcontractors for the Puerto Rico Telephone Company have ratified strong three-year contracts that include improved grievance and arbitration procedures, new bonuses and more leave time.
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Jun 20, 2011
Final FCC Comment Filing Deadline Offers Opportunity to Review Positives of Proposed ATT-TMO Merger, Including Expanding Broadband Access and Benefits to Consumers and Workers
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Jun 17, 2011
A nationwide group of small businesses, executives and investors is imploring Congress to end corporate tax holidays and loopholes and retire the farce that trickle-down economic policies create jobs.
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May 31, 2011
CWA told the Federal Communications Commission today that the AT&T/T-Mobile merger will create quality jobs and accelerate critically needed broadband buildout.
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May 26, 2011
As nationwide bargaining began this week for a new GE contract, IUE-CWA members and their negotiating team put management on notice that they expect employees to share in the company's increased profitability and performance.
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May 26, 2011
On Capitol Hill this week, CWA President Larry Cohen met with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute and Democratic members of the California delegation on how the AT&T/T-Mobile merger will benefit workers and consumers.
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May 26, 2011
Despite heavy rain, NABET-CWA members in New York City rallied with enthusiasm last week outside star-studded NBC and ABC presentations that gave advertisers their first look at the networks' fall TV shows.
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May 5, 2011
As many state and federal lawmakers try to crush workers' rights, CWA and its allies are rapidly building momentum and networks, as CWA's fourth "virtual town hall" phone call illustrated Tuesday night.
About 2,000 CWA members around the country listened as CWA leaders, AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka and four CWA activists updated campaigns to fight back, including more than 100 May Day events around the country last Sunday that brought together immigrant and workers' rights activists.
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Apr 28, 2011
CWA will hold another national stewards call, our fourth "virtual union meeting," on Tuesday, May 3 at 7:30 p.m. EDT. It's a good way for CWA activists to move forward together on next steps.
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Apr 28, 2011
Ohio's rapidly growing "Good Jobs, Strong Communities" coalition is planning a massive rally at the state capitol next Thursday, May 5, to address the broad array of legislative assaults hurting workers and working families.
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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.
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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.
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Mar 17, 2011
On Tuesday, March 29, CWAers will again join together for a virtual town hall meeting. CWA President Larry Cohen, Executive Vice President Annie Hill, executive board members and thousands of CWA activists will be on the phone in our third meeting since the fight for fairness in the states got underway.
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Feb 25, 2011
In a big victory for a campaign fighting to restore CWA jobs, local control of programming and a popular morning show at a Pacifica radio network station in Berkeley, Calif., management has rehired one of the workers it let go last November.
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Feb 17, 2011
A week of rapidly organized rallies and marches continued today in Wisconsin, drawing tens of thousands of residents to the state capitol to condemn Gov. Scott Walker's attacks on collective bargaining rights for public workers.
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Feb 17, 2011
For the second week, thousands of people are jamming Ohio's statehouse to protest legislation that would wipe out collective bargaining rights for state employees, weaken other workers' rights and have a devastating ripple effect on families and communities already struggling financially.
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Feb 10, 2011
Creating good, sustainable jobs in the nation's emerging green economy will require workers, community and political leaders to build coalitions that put pressure on employers, CWA President Larry Cohen told the "Good Jobs, Green Jobs" conference Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
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Feb 1, 2011
In the aftermath of the November 2010 elections, which saw more than 800 state legislative seats flip from Democrat to Republican-held, the anticipated assault on workers at the state level has begun. CWA is monitoring, and in some cases organizing against, hundreds of anti-worker bills and initiatives in a number of states.
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Feb 1, 2011
CWA is preparing to oppose the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS) as it approaches a possible February or March vote in the Senate. The largest trade deal since NAFTA, we oppose KORUS because we think it will damage our economy and the jobs outlook in this country.
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