Apr 7, 2003
Ski Patrollers in Two States Join CWA
Colorado and Utah ski patrollers have voted to join CWA.
Mar 31, 2003
VIS Contract Ratified
The contract with Verizon Information Services has been ratified by a better than two-to-one margin.
Mar 28, 2003
Labor Award Salutes Union-Friendly Cingular
Cingular Wireless, honored for its neutrality in organizing drives and record of treating employees fairly and with respect, has been awarded the Labor-Management Award by the AFL-CIO's Union Label & Service Trades Department.
Mar 28, 2003
CWA Fights IRS Proposals Affecting Pension Plans
CWA is fighting an IRS proposal to convert traditional defined benefit pension plans to less valuable cash balance plans because they would undermine workers' retirement security.
Mar 21, 2003
Block Award Honors Work to Clear the Innocent
The second Herbert Block Freedom Award will honor a Northwestern University professor and his students for their work on behalf of innocent death row inmates in Illinois.
Mar 21, 2003
Chinese Daily News Workers’ Struggle Enters Third
TNG-CWA members at the Chinese Daily News in LA marked two years of struggle against their employer's anti-union campaign by meeting with the NLRB.
Mar 21, 2003
CWA Presses Disney on Corporate Accountability
At the annual shareholders' meeting, NABET-CWA members and supporters called on Disney's board of directors to establish a compensation policy that links granting stock options to executives to their performance.
Mar 21, 2003
SBC Pays Big Bucks in Overtime Settlement
267 CWA members at SBC Communications will share a $1,052,579 award received as the result of a wage settlement agreement.
Mar 14, 2003
Jobs, Not Greed, is CWA Message at Verizon
As CWA members at Verizon prepare for bargaining, the union will take its "jobs, not greed" message the Verizon Communications annual shareholders meeting Apr. 23 in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Mar 14, 2003
Fenn Pact Ends Lockout
CWA members at Fenn Mfg. in Newington, Conn., have ratified a new four-year agreement, ending an eight-month strike and lockout at the parts-maker for Sikorsky helicopters and other defense contractors.
Mar 14, 2003
L-P Conference: Unions Can Turn the Tide in 2004
Former President Bill Clinton noted that in the next election, unions have the opportunity to sway the country away from the devastating Bush economic policies and restore basic principles of fairness, compassion and common sense to government.
Mar 10, 2003
NABET Tackles Disney’s ‘Exorbitant’ Stock Options
As new contract negotiations with ABC begin, NABET-CWA has submitted a shareholder proposal urging Disney to link job performance to granting stock options to executives.
Mar 10, 2003
Union, Industry, Powell Appalled at FCC Decision
CWA President Morton Bahr called FCC decision to not regulate telephone line and switch leasing a disaster and pledged that CWA will work hard to safeguard workers' jobs.
Mar 10, 2003
Sprint Missouri, Kansas and Ohio Units Settle
After extended bargaining, Sprint workers arrived at new contracts in Missouri and Kansas on Feb. 27, and shortly past a midnight deadline on Feb. 28, in Ohio.
Mar 10, 2003
Chao’s ‘Insulting’ Behavior Stuns Labor Leaders
Labor Secretary Elaine Chao's "insulting" and "condescending" comments angered union leaders at last week's AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting in Florida. However, the experience has reinforced solidarity among unions.
Mar 3, 2003
CWA tells FCC: Preserve Media Diversity, Ownership
TNG-CWA President Linda Foley pressed the FCC to safeguard the media from further consolidation in order to preserve the full dissemination and diversity of information to the public.
Mar 3, 2003
AFL-CIO Launches Revolutionary Program
The AFL-CIO Executive Council has embraced a sweeping new program to build up the labor movement and bring collective bargaining and organizing rights to tens of millions of workers.
Mar 3, 2003
Verizon Directory Workers Win Tentative First Pact
After months of intense effort, 1,700 Verizon Information Services directory workers in the former Bell Atlantic/Nynex region will soon vote on a first contract.
Feb 24, 2003
CWA Prompts New GE Executive Pay Formula
In response to a CWA shareholder proposal, GE, agrees to exclude pension fund income when determining executive compensation.
Feb 24, 2003
Ergonomics Committee’s Mission Limited to Advice
OSHA Administrator John Henshaw makes it clear members of the new National Advisory Committee on Ergonomics can only make recommendations for workplace ergonomics guidelines, outreach and research. Enforcement, or even the mere discussion of regulations, is beyond the committee's scope.
