Feb 1, 2011
The Senate this week failed to pass meaningful rules reform aimed at making the upper chamber a democratic institution and preventing the minority from engaging in obstructionist activity.
Instead, the Senate, with bipartisan support, adopted minor tweaks to existing rules, ending “anonymous holds” on nominees and ending the right of individual senators to force the reading of an amendment that has already been submitted for 72 hours and is publicly available.
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Jan 28, 2011
Anti-union politicians and pundits are trying to pin the blame for the bad economy on public workers and their pensions, falsely claiming they're the reason that states and cities are at risk of going broke.
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Jan 26, 2011
CWA keeps up the fight for Senate rules reform.
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Jan 20, 2011
The National Labor Relations Board is threatening lawsuits against four states for violating federal law and the U.S. Constitution in their attempts to restrict the rights of workers to organize unions.
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Jan 13, 2011
CWA, the labor movement and its allies are preparing for battle as states across the country declare a renewed war on unions, with special attacks on the rights, wages and pensions of public employees.
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Jan 6, 2011
Signaling an aggressive new commitment to protect workers’ union rights, the National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel is instructing the agency’s regional offices to take swift action against employers who interfere with workers during organizing campaigns.
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Jan 5, 2011
Bill Boarman sworn in as the Public Printer of the United States.
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Dec 22, 2010
Want to hear how the Senate rules don’t work from an inside source? Click on this interview with the “Secret Senator,” who talks about obstruction and other political games that have stalled action on important issues for working families throughout the two years of the 111th Congress.
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Dec 22, 2010
As this CWA Newsletter closed out, some Senate Republicans led by Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) were continuing to stall discussion of the bill to provide health care and compensation to Sept. 11 responders at Ground Zero. The legislation would help ailing police officers, firefighters, telecom workers and others – including many CWA members -- who were on the ground in the earliest days following Sept. 11.
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Dec 22, 2010
The vote by the the Federal Communications Commission approving Chairman Genachowski’s initiative to adopt open Internet rules means the U.S. can move forward on broadband buildout in a way that will create quality jobs, sustainable communities and enable the U.S. to catch up with the rest of the world.
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Dec 16, 2010
CWA President Larry Cohen and National Urban League President and CEO Marc Morial co-authored this op-ed about the critical need for high speed broadband buildout.
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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
How can we restore democracy and debate to the U.S. Senate? That was topic A at a forum sponsored by Common Cause, where CWA President Larry Cohen, Common Cause President and CEO Bob Edgar, Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and others talked about ways to fix the arcane Senate rules.
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Dec 16, 2010
In a welcome about-face from the kind of rulings issued by the National Labor Relations Board under the Bush Administration, the NLRB has strongly endorsed workers' ability to choose union representation through majority sign up.
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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 9, 2010
Fifty-five Senators voted to have a full discussion and debate on a bill to give public safety officers collective bargaining rights.
But under the current Senate rules, a majority just isn’t enough. That majority vote couldn’t overcome the 40 Republicans and three Democrats who killed the bill by not allowing it to be debated by the full Senate. All Republicans plus Democrats Mark Warner (Va.), Kay Hagan (N.C.) and Michael Bennet (Colo.) voted against full discussion of the bill.
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Dec 9, 2010
Months ago, the House of Representatives voted to cover medical treatment and monitoring for workers exposed to toxins at Ground Zero, where workers, including hundreds of CWAers, were on the job following the 9-11 terrorist attacks.
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Dec 9, 2010
On the floor of the U.S. Senate, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) stood up for working and middle class families against the corporate and personal greed that is making the income gap between the top 1 percent and everyone else even bigger.
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Dec 9, 2010
Aren’t workers in South Carolina covered by the National Labor Relations Act? You know, the law passed in 1935 that says workers have the right to join a union and bargain collectively?
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Dec 3, 2010
CWA supports the Public Safety Employer-Employee Act, S. 3991, as an important step forward in providing public safety officers a voice on the job and in their communities.
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