Apr 5, 2012
Next week will be a time of unprecedented activity around the country, as union members, environmentalists, religious, civil rights, community and immigrant activists, Occupiers and many more join a nationwide 99 Percent Spring training on how to gain economic justice.
Mar 29, 2012
Occupy Wall Street-inspired activists are gearing up to lead demonstrations and resistance as part of "99 Percent Spring/Challenging Corporate Power."
Mar 29, 2012
CWA activists are planning actions around Verizon's annual shareholder meeting to bring attention to corporate greed and economic inequality.
Mar 29, 2012
March 22 was a great day of rallies and leafleting across the country, with CWA members joined by members of many different unions, Jobs with Justice, Occupiers and other supporters.
Mar 22, 2012
CWA activists are headed to spring training. Next month, 2,000 CWA activists will be attending training to lead nonviolent, direct protests aimed at reigniting the enthusiasm and passion of Occupy Wall Street and Wisconsin uprisings. CWA joins more than 60 progressive groups — collectively called the 99 Percent Spring — that will be training a total of 100,000 activists at 700 trainings in 48 states.
Mar 15, 2012
The Communications Workers of America (CWA) is expanding its national program to educate 700,000 members and their families about the threat to our democracy posed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling. That ruling allows corporations to contribute unlimited money to political campaigns because the court determined that corporations also have free speech and other rights that individuals are granted by the U.S. Constitution. CWA’s continued commitment comes as the national AFL-CIO passed a statement endorsing action to overturn the Citizens United ruling at its winter meeting in Orlando, Florida.
Feb 17, 2012
New Mexico is now the second state, following Hawaii's lead, where lawmakers in the Senate are on record strongly opposing Citizens United and corporate money in politics.
Feb 3, 2012
More than 700 CWA activists covered Capitol Hill as part of CWA's Legislative-Political conference in Washington. Their message to senators, representatives and staff: we're fighting back to restore democracy and economic justice for working families. CWA activists visited more than 350 congressional offices.
Jan 26, 2012
CWA, working with several organizations determined to restore our democracy, spotlighted the destructive influence of corporate money in politics in actions and events tied to the Jan. 20 anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling.
Jan 26, 2012
Ever since the 2010 Supreme Court "Citizens United" decision declared that corporations and other groups could spend as much as they wanted in political campaigns, money has become a harmful and corrosive influence in American politics.
Jan 24, 2012
The Communications Workers of America commends President Obama for his focus on creating an America that is built to last with an economy that works for everyone, not just a wealthy few. In addition, an America built to last cannot be one in which corporate money determines who is elected and what issues are debated.
Jan 20, 2012
As the nation approaches the two year anniversary of the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, which helped open the floodgates to unprecedented levels of corporate money in politics, the Communications Workers of America today announces a series of actions to raise awareness of the corrosive influence of money in politics.
Jan 19, 2012
Adding new momentum in the fight to clean up Albany, the presidents of three national labor unions are commending New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for his leadership in pressing for public funding of elections in the state, and urging him to keep up the fight.
In a letter to the Governor, the presidents of the UAW, SEIU and Communications Workers of America write that “uniting us all is a commitment to the idea that all workers deserve a voice and that in a democracy, wealth should not determine political powers. The status quo systems of elections in New York, with their sky-high donation limits and lack of public matching funds, undermine these principles.”
Jan 13, 2012
CWA is first union to join United For the People, to fight back against corporate money and corporate control in politics.
Jan 1, 2012
In its January 2010 Citizens United decision, the U.S. Supreme Court turned election and political spending upside down. With the Court’s determination that “corporations are people too,” with free speech rights and other individual liberties, it eliminated the campaign spending restrictions that were put in place more than a century ago to stop corporations and other groups from exerting undue influence and spending millions of dollars and more in the electoral process.
Dec 22, 2011
CWA, our Legislative Political Action Teams in every district and our progressive allies are fighting back against this flood of corporate and wealthy dollars that is destroying our democratic process. Here’s how.
Oct 21, 2011
The manager of corporate communications for Delta Air Lines, Chris Kelly Singley, recently said, "We don't want to engage in a political debate…And we just thought we were flying airplanes." Yet new revelations included in Delta's new lobbying disclosure report highlight that Delta doth protest too much. Despite their avowedly apolitical stance Delta continues to drive a union-busting political agenda, and is ready and willing to throw around a range of dollars and perks to sweeten the pot for lawmakers - no matter the cost to the American taxpayer or traveler.
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