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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Jan 28, 2011
President Obama's visit last Friday to an IUE-CWA-represented GE factory in Schenectady, N.Y., left workers optimistic about efforts to create and restore American manufacturing jobs.
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Jan 28, 2011
Not "in a million years," did Marilyn Primett expect to have the kind of day she had last Friday, when she looked up from wiping down a steam turbine and found President Obama extending his hand in greeting.
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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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Dec 21, 2010
The FCC Chairman gives a shout out to CWA as the Commission votes to adopt open Internet rules.
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Dec 16, 2010
CWA's fourth annual Speed Matters report comparing broadband speeds in every state was rolled out at a news conference with President Larry Cohen, FCC Chair Julius Genachowski, and key coalition members in the campaign to improve access and affordability of high speed broadband.
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Dec 16, 2010
A unit of 53 Budget Rental Car workers represented by IUE-CWA Local 81201 at Logan Airport beat back a management-supported campaign to get rid of their union, and voted 25-18 to keep their IUE-CWA voice. A strong rank and file campaign that included house visits and a public letter of support signed by 26 workers was key to the victory. Workers at Budget first organized in October 2009.
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Dec 15, 2010
CWA's fourth Speed Matters report shows that the U.S. has a long way to go to catch up to international broadband speed standards.
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Dec 2, 2010
CWA President Larry Cohen and leaders from labor, public policy, and other progressive groups are calling on the Obama Administration and Congress to focus on jobs and programs that support economic growth, not one-dimensional deficit reduction proposals that will actually hurt job creation.
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