Feb 7, 2013

World Union Leader Puts Global Spotlight on T-Mobile

Sharan Burrow, leader of the world’s largest union organization, the International Trade Union Confederation, will be in Washington, D.C., and Charleston, S.C., next week, to push forward on the global campaign for justice for T-Mobile USA workers.

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Feb 7, 2013

Trans-Pacific Partnership Will Make Offshoring Even Worse

A new analysis by the Pennsylvania Fair Trade Coalition has found that Pennsylvania workers were hit harder by offshoring than workers in almost every other state.

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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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Feb 7, 2013

Violence Against Women Act Returns to the Senate

At last, the Senate is poised to renew the Violence Against Women Act, a bill that Republicans thwarted last year over provisions for abused illegal immigrants, LGBT couples and Native Americans.

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Feb 7, 2013

Long Lines Disenfranchised 2012 Voters

During the November 2012 election, black and Hispanic voters waited nearly twice as long in line to vote as white voters, according to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology analysis.

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Feb 7, 2013

Apply for Morton Bahr Online Learning Scholarship

Empire State College, part of the State University of New York, now is accepting applications for the Morton Bahr Online Learning Scholarship for the 2013-2014 academic year.

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Feb 7, 2013

Make Sure Your Voice is Heard as CWA Builds a Movement for Justice and Democracy

Check out the latest videos on CWA’s movement building website!

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Jan 31, 2013

CWA Workers to Build Up to 900 Los Angeles Buses

CWAers at New Flyer will soon start manufacturing up to 900 environmentally-friendly compressed natural gas buses for Los Angeles, creating about 150 jobs at the Minnesota plant and 50 jobs at a new California service center.

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Jan 31, 2013

Cablevision Illegally Locks Out, Fires 23 Workers

Brooklyn Cablevision/Optimum illegally locked out and fired 23 workers who were attempting to discuss the lack of good-faith bargaining by the company with management. This activity is protected by federal law.

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Jan 31, 2013

Mailers Ratify Contract with Washington Post

After more than a decade of bargaining for a new contract, Washington Mailers Local 14201 ratified an agreement this week with The Washington Post.

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Jan 31, 2013

Big Victory for Lucent Installers On Company’s Age Discrimination

CWA Installers claimed that from 2002-2004, Lucent Technologies (now Alcatel Lucent) was discriminating against senior installers by forcing them to permanently move long distances as part of “permanent transfer” contract language.

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Jan 31, 2013

AFA-CWA Reaches Tentative Contract with US Airways

AFA-CWA reached a tentative agreement with US Airways management for a contract covering all US Airways mainline Flight Attendants, about 7,500.

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Jan 31, 2013

Bargaining and Organizing Updates

Bargaining and organizing updates from this week.

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Jan 31, 2013

Stand Up for Ohio

Leaders from union, community, civil rights, student, faith and many other groups met in Columbus, Ohio at CWA Local 4320 to lay out plans for 2013.

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Jan 31, 2013

Without the NLRB, Workers Have No Path to Justice

On Jan. 25, three members of the federal appeals court for the District of Columbia Circuit invalidated President Obama’s three recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board made in January 2012. We’re just beginning to realize the consequences of that action, and the potential harm to millions of workers.

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Jan 31, 2013

Obama Advocates Path to Citizenship for 11 Million Immigrants

CWA commends the Obama administration on its determination to create a path to citizenship for 11 million adults and their children who contribute to the economic life of our nation every day.

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Jan 31, 2013

Isabella’s Song—Sandy Be Not Proud

Isabella Burns, member of CWA Local 1180, shares her experiences of the devastation of Hurricane Sandy.

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Jan 24, 2013

Another Weak Compromise on Senate Rules Reform

The incremental improvements in a soon-to-be finalized Senate rules reform deal do not go nearly far enough to deliver meaningful change, transparency and accountability. The Senate has once again missed an opportunity to curb the chamber's abuse of the filibuster and end obstruction.

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Jan 24, 2013

Bargaining Update

AT&T Mobility, Verizon West, and ongoing negotiations at CenturyLink.

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Jan 24, 2013

Cincinnati CWAers Get Tech Training Through CWA/NETT

Recently laid-off members of Local 4400 in Cincinnati, Ohio, completed IC3 computer training and earned certification.

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