Apr 18, 2013

West Virginia Supports Getting Corporate Money Out of Politics

CWA was instrumental in the West Virginia state legislature’s passing a resolution calling on Congress to adopt a constitutional amendment that will end the corrosive influence of corporate money in politics.

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Apr 18, 2013

1 CEO Makes 354 Times the Average Worker

Did you know just one CEO makes 354 times as much as the average rank-and-file worker?

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Apr 4, 2013

New Yorkers Push for Campaign Finance Reform

CWA Local 1103’s Joesph Mayhew is advocating that public financing of elections is vital in today’s Citizens United world.

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Feb 12, 2013

CWA:  An Economy and Democracy that Works for All Must Be Our Goal

CWA commends the President's focus on jobs and calls for tough policy to keep good jobs here in the U.S.

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Feb 7, 2013

Jobs Not Cuts!

On Feb. 12, CWA will be joining AFGE, AFSCME and workers from across the country to tell Congress to stop the attacks on working families and to start making everyone pay their fair share.

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Feb 7, 2013

A Civil Right to Organize

"Our democracy is corrupted," wrote CWA President Larry Cohen in the latest issue of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council’s newsletter. "Money is not speech. Corporations are not people. Our path to change must rely on massive movement-building, uniting economic justice and democracy."

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Jan 24, 2013

Getting Corporate Money Out of Politics

CWAers and progressive activists across the country marked the third anniversary of the disastrous Supreme Court Citizen's United decision with nationwide actions over the Martin Luther King weekend protesting the billions of dollars that have subverted our political process.

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Jan 17, 2013

CWA Telephone Town Hall Call Tonight

You won't want to miss the CWA national town hall call tonight at 7:30 pm ET.

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Jan 10, 2013

The Democracy Initiative

CWA has a leading role in the Democracy Initiative, as progressive groups are banding together to build a national campaign around three goals: getting big money out of politics, fighting voter suppression and restoring voting rights and reforming the broken Senate rules.

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Dec 20, 2012

Stamp Out Money in Politics

Here’s an easy and fun way to take a stand against money in politics.

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Nov 29, 2012

Stamp Out Money in Politics

The website www.StampStampede.org is part of the movement to amend the Constitution to get money out of politics and to make it clear that corporations are not people and money isn’t speech.

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Oct 26, 2012

More Fallout from Citizens United

In a democracy, corporations shouldn’t control speech, but thanks to Citizens United, your boss can tell you how to vote.

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Oct 11, 2012

Virginia Political Activists Leaflet Verizon Call Centers

CWA District 2-13 Vice President Ed Mooney joined activists in leafleting the 600 CWAers who work at two Verizon customer service centers outside Richmond, Va., on Oct. 10.

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Oct 4, 2012

CWA, Progressive Coalition Fights for Fair Election Financing in New York State

CWA is working with a coalition of progressive groups to urge New York State to establish public financing of state election campaigns.

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Oct 1, 2012

Get Money Out of Politics

Big corporate money is working to silence the political voice of working people — again.

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Oct 1, 2012

Protect Collective Bargaining

Unions and allies are on the offensive.

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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 20, 2012

CWA Joins NAACP and Greenpeace to Back Grassroots Democracy Act, Introduced By Rep. Sarbanes

The Communications Workers of America (CWA) today announced that they have issued a joint letter, along with the NAACP and Greenpeace, in support of new legislation issued by Rep. John Sarbanes (D-MD), entitled the Grassroots Democracy Act, HR 6426.

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Sep 6, 2012

Trade Deal Negotiators Secretly Meet – We’ll Be There

Don't forget: This weekend CWA is rallying against NAFTA on steroids.

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Sep 6, 2012

Capote: Bring Call Center Jobs Home

Offshoring call center jobs devastates the economy, CWA Local 3122 Executive Vice President Hector Capote wrote in a Miami Herald letter to the editor.

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