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May 23, 2003

CWA in Tough Talks at Avaya, OFS

CWA members are involved in tough bargaining with Avaya and OFS. Negotiations are going down to the wire as May 31 contract expirations loom.

May 23, 2003

One Adelphia Unit Strikes; Others Could Follow

Frustrated after months of futile negotiations, CWA Local 2004 members and supporters rallied outside the Adelphia cable office in Morgantown, W.Va.

May 23, 2003

Thousands Show Solidarity as GE Talks Open

IUE-CWA Members at GE Stage Masive Rally Demonstrating Solidarity

May 23, 2003

Verizon N.C. Strike Centers on Family Issues

Striking workers at Verizon South-Western North Carolina are fed up with forced overtime and a company demand to take away emergency leave.

May 21, 2003

CWA Hopes for Avalanche of Postcards in FTAA Fight

With a postcard or a few mouse clicks, CWA members can join activists throughout North and South America in their fight to stop the damaging Free Trade Area of the Americas agreement.

May 21, 2003

Shareholders Deflate ‘Golden Parachutes’ at Sprint

By taking the message directly to the shareholder meeting, CWA and other unions struck four serious blows for good corporate governance at Sprint.

May 21, 2003

New Jersey State Workers Rally Against Rollbacks

CWA-represented New Jersey state employees turned out en masse last week to fight cuts in health care benefits and other rollbacks the state wants to help balance its ailing budget.

May 12, 2003

TNG-CWA Freedom Award Honors Journalism’s Best

The Newspaper Guild-CWA honored the best in journalism with the Herbert Block, Heywood Broun and David S. Barr awards at the second annual Freedom Award Fund banquet in Washington, D.C. on May 7.

May 12, 2003

CWA Bargains; Unions Push For Reforms at Comcast

CWA ramped up the pressure on Comcast by mobilizing at the shareholder meeting May 7 in Philadelphia and presenting more than 5,000 postcards urging the CEO to "bargain fairly and without delay" with about 1,000 members in the Pittsburgh area.

May 12, 2003

CWA Begins Talks with Avaya

CWA opened negotiations with Avaya May 6, calling on the company to reach a fair and equitable agreement that safeguards members' jobs.

May 12, 2003

Locals Asked to ‘Adopt’ Striking Sprint Workers

CWA District 1 has established an Adopt-a-Striker Fund to assist 94 members of Local 1101 who are on strike at Sprint in Clinton, N.J.,

May 12, 2003

Report Links Job Loss to Verizon Service Decline

An interim report released by the New York Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions of the State Assembly reveals that Verizon service in NY shows "continuing declines of service to levels that are simply unacceptable.

May 2, 2003

CWA Leads NJ to Look at ‘Right-to-Know’ Bill

CWA strongly supports potential legislation before the New Jersey State Assembly that would give people the right to know what country people are physically in who answer phones at business and government agency service centers.

May 2, 2003

AFL-CIO Leaders Push Comcast to Bargain

Richard Trumka and secretary-treasurers of other unions wrote the Comcast CEO urging him to bargain a fair contract for employees of the firm.

May 2, 2003

CWA Urges Democrats to Spotlight Economy

Democratics running for president will debate in Columbia, S.C. on Saturday and CWA is urging them to address the economic plight of working Americans.

Apr 28, 2003

CWAers Take Action at Annual Meetings

CWA members at Verizon Communications and General Electric are taking their issues directly to stockholders at corporate meetings.

Apr 28, 2003

District 1, Nurses React to SARS Epidemic

In the face of the SARS threat, CWA members of Local 1168/Nurses United are taking action to protect their patients, colleagues and communities.

Apr 11, 2003

CWA Presses IRS on Pension Fairness

CWA, Members of Congress and pension rights supporters join forces to push the IRS to rescind proposed regulations that threaten workers' retirement security.

Apr 11, 2003