Sep 20, 2012

Listen to the Sept. 20 Union Hall Call

Listen to the audio archive of CWA's September 20 Union Hall Call. The call included updates on Verizon, CWA's voter registration drive in Pennsylvania and how activists fought to secure Trade Adjustment Assistance for T-Mobile workers.

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Sep 13, 2012

Activists Go Head-to-Head with TPP Negotiators

About 200 activists from CWA, Sierra Club and Citizens Trade Campaign joined the latest round of the Trans Pacific Partnership talks in Leesburg, Va., where they had the opportunity to confront negotiators about the secret talks.

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Sep 13, 2012

Michigan Collective Bargaining Measure Will Be On Ballot

The Michigan Supreme Court ruled last week that a proposed November ballot question to enshrine collective bargaining rights in the state’s constitution should be put before voters.

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Aug 2, 2012

Maryland Senators Criticize Verizon-Big Cable Deal

U.S. Senators Barbara Mikulski and Benjamin Cardin (D-Maryland) decried Verizon Wireless’s job-killing deal with big cable companies last week in a letter to the Federal Communications Commission and Justice Department.

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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!

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Jul 5, 2012

CWA Activists Challenge Secret TPP Trade Deal

CWA activists were part of a big crowd that stood up to Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiators this week, demanding more transparency and openness in what could be the biggest free trade agreement in the world.

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Jun 28, 2012

AFA-CWA Urges Passage of Protections Against Domestic Violence

At a Capitol Hill news conference, AFA-CWA President Veda Shook called on Congress to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act now.

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Jun 7, 2012

New Mexico: Three CWA-Backed Candidates Win Primaries

New Mexico’s Democratic primary saw some great victories and a few tough losses for CWA-endorsed candidates.

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Jun 1, 2012

Democratic House Leaders to American Airlines: ‘Comply with the Law’

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and two Ranking Members call on American Airlines to stop delaying the democratic, union representation elections that passenger service agents want and the NMB ordered.

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May 31, 2012

Cohen: How We Get Our Democracy Back

CWA President Larry Cohen talks about taking back our democracy at the National People’s Action conference.

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May 31, 2012

Wisconsin Recall Race Drives Activists to Get Out the Vote

CWA activists’ get-out-the-vote efforts have gone into overdrive in the last few days before Wisconsin’s recall election.

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May 31, 2012

CWA, Allies Call on White House to Prevent Chemical Disasters

CWA and 200 allies are urging President Barack Obama to use his executive power to “prevent the catastrophic release of extremely hazardous chemicals.”

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May 17, 2012

American Airlines Agents Press NMB to Move Forward on Union Election

American Airlines is still refusing to hand over mailing labels to the National Mediation Board so that passenger service agents can vote on union representation. So workers took matters into their own hands.

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May 17, 2012

Activists Protest Secret Trade Deal

Nearly 400 protesters marched to the doorstep of Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiators this weekend, demanding transparency and accountability in the secretive international trade talks.

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May 10, 2012

CWA Demands Public Trans-Pacific Trade Talks

CWA and its progressive allies on Saturday will march on corporate America's latest power grab: The Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement.

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May 10, 2012

CWA Activists Work to Recall Wisconsin Gov. Walker

With less than a month until Wisconsin's recall election, CWA activists have been working around the clock to get Republican Gov. Scott Walker out of office.

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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.

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Apr 26, 2012

Senate Rejects U.S. Chamber-Backed Attack on NLRB Rule Change

The U.S. Senate upheld the very modest changes made by the National Labor Relations Board last year to ensure that workers have fair and timely elections.

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Apr 26, 2012

USAID Suspends Aid for Call Center Outsourcing

The U.S. Agency for International Development has "suspended" an initiative training Filipino workers for call center jobs outsourced by American companies.

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Apr 5, 2012

‘Oh Susana’ Sings a Different Tune

CWA launched a new website this week that continues to expose Republican Gov. Susana Martinez's record of favoring out-of-state corporations at the expense of New Mexico working families and homegrown small businesses.

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