Aug 11, 2011
As part of CWA's Accountability Actions for August and September, AFA-CWA flight attendants are calling on Congress to fully fund the Federal Aviation Administration and to keep the democratic voting standard for union representation elections.
Aug 4, 2011
As this issue went to press, the House and Senate announced an agreement to extend FAA funding through mid-September, bringing an end to a 12-day partial shutdown of the agency, and sending tens of thousands of FAA employees and private contractors back to work.
Jul 29, 2011
One week after the shutdown of all non-safety related activities of the Federal Aviation Administration and the layoff of tens of thousands of workers nationwide, aviation professionals today are demanding that lawmakers in the House of Representatives stop hurting working families and pass a clean FAA extension.
Jul 28, 2011
In an outrageous attack on workers' rights that has furloughed 100,000 workers, House Republicans are refusing to reauthorize funding for the FAA unless the bill is stripped of provisions for fair and democratic union elections at airlines.
Jul 28, 2011
Calling it an "outsourcers' bill of rights," U.S. House Democrats are condemning the Republican's newest attack on workers, a bill that would bar the National Labor Relations Board from penalizing companies that close plants and move work to avoid unions.
Jul 21, 2011
The tireless efforts of union members and broad coalitions of allies in Wisconsin paid off for the second week in a row, as voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected the Republican attempt to recall Democratic state Sen. Dave Hansen.
Jul 21, 2011
As CWA members across the country gear up for town hall meetings when federal lawmakers head home in August, Minnesota activists are getting good practice at holding legislators accountable.
Jul 21, 2011
It's official: The Ohio petition drive to let voters decide the fate of the state's new anti-union law gathered 915,456 valid signatures — more than three times the number required.
Jul 14, 2011
From protecting Medicare to opposing the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, stopping voter suppression and battling state attacks on workers' rights, resolutions that CWA convention delegates passed this week had a central theme: Taking action and continuing to build a broad-based movement to fight back.
Jul 7, 2011
It took some serious political brawling by CWA Local 1104, but when the New York Legislature ended its session, 6,000 members of the local's Graduate Student Employees Union finally had the raises they negotiated in 2009.
Jul 7, 2011
With just days to go until Wisconsin's first round of recall elections, CWA members and thousands of other volunteers are using every available moment to make phone calls and knock on doors.
Jun 30, 2011
They called it the "Million Signature March," but 1.3 million would be more accurate. The final, stunning number of petition signatures that a lively parade of Ohioans delivered Wednesday to their secretary of state's office was, to be precise, 1,298,301.
Jun 30, 2011
CWA locals statewide and the entire union movement are united in plans to protect collective bargaining, negotiate a fair state contract, and save workers' jobs while protecting and maintaining critical services in the state.
Jun 30, 2011
CWA local leaders and members in Virginia have put together a model grassroots campaign as part of the effort to win collective bargaining rights for public safety officers.
Jun 24, 2011
In a devastating blow to a half-million public workers in New Jersey, including 65,000 CWA members, the state Assembly on Thursday stripped them of their right to collectively bargain health care benefits and voted for steep increases in what workers pay for health care and pensions, while CWA is in contract negotiations with a June 30 expiration.
Jun 24, 2011
When volunteers began circulating petitions two months ago, Ohio unions and their allies had an ambitious goal: A half-million signatures by June 30, more than twice the 231,000 valid signatures required to put a repeal of the state's anti-collective bargaining law on November's ballot.
Jun 24, 2011
New proposals from the National Labor Relations Board regarding rules for union representation elections are a first, but modest, step toward ending some of the delays workers face when trying to organize, CWA President Larry Cohen said.
Jun 21, 2011
The NLRB proposes changes to end some of the delay that drags out representation elections for months and even years.
Jun 17, 2011
With major bargaining fights underway and the ongoing battles to protect workers' rights at the state level, summer is going to be hotter than ever for the labor movement, CWA President Larry Cohen told thousands of activists on Thursday night's "virtual town hall" conference call.
Jun 17, 2011
Wisconsin workers aren't down or out, despite the blow their state's Supreme Court dealt this week as it gave Gov. Scott Walker a green light to strip collective bargaining rights from public employees.
