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Feb 24, 2003

New Jersey Plant to Move Work Offshore

1,600 IUE-CWA members' jobs are at risk when AB Electrolux closes its Edison, N.J. plant.

Feb 24, 2003

FCC Misses Opportunity in Telecom

CWA Pres. Bahr calls FCC UNE-P decision a disaster; pledges union will work to safeguard workers' jobs.

Feb 14, 2003

Labor, Others Condemn DeLay Hate Letter

CWA and other unions expressed outrage over House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's union-bashing fundraising letter to supporters.

Feb 14, 2003

Wage Package Ends Strike at Long Island’s Kerns

After a 10-day strike, IUE-CWA members at Kerns Manufacturing, Long Island City, N.Y., have reached a tentative settlement that will improve wages and hold the line on employees' health care costs.

Feb 14, 2003

CWA Seeks Limits on Adelphia Top Pay

CWA filed objections with bankruptcy court over Adelphia's proposal to give $45 million to two top executives while freezing workers' wages and cutting their health care benefits.

Feb 11, 2003

AFL-CIO Industrial Unions Roar onto Capitol Hill

Thousands of members from CWA and 11 other AFL-CIO unions demand that Congress take immediate steps to reverse erosion of the manufacturing sector.

Feb 11, 2003

CWA Urges Focus on Organizing & Bargaining Rights

CWA is urging the AFL-CIO to adopt a resolution calling all its unions to a renewed commitment to collective bargaining and organizing rights.

Feb 11, 2003

ComTech Locals Take Up Avaya, AT&T

CWA local officers representing workers at AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Avaya, Furukawa OFS and Agere Systems met Jan. 27-Feb. 2 for the annual CWA Communications and Technologies Leadership Conference.

Jan 31, 2003

Health Problems Plague Ground Zero Workers

Approximately half of the workers involved in rescue and recovery efforts at the site of the World Trade Center collapse have developed health problems.

Jan 31, 2003

Washtech Seeks Investigation of IT Job Shifting

Washtech calls for a congressional investigation of Microsoft's continued attempts to shift U.S. technology jobs overseas.

Jan 31, 2003

CWA on ‘State of the Union’

CWA Executive Board identifies significant challenges to turning the country's economic condition around.

Jan 24, 2003

Sprint Workers Win New Contracts, Strike Averted

Sprint bargaining units representing 3,000 CWA members reached tentative agreements on Jan. 21, thereby averting a potential strike.

Jan 24, 2003

Fight for Fairness at Dish Network

Support your fellow workers. Break Dish's habit of disrespecting employees' rights.

Jan 17, 2003

CWA Reaches Early Lucent Contract

In early bargaining, CWA reached a tentative 20-month agreement with Lucent Technologies covering nearly 6,000 workers.

Jan 17, 2003

IUE-CWA UE Shut 64 GE Plants in Health Care Strike

In the first national strike against General Electric in more than three decades, IUE-CWA and UE workers shut down GE facilities in 23 states.

Jan 10, 2003

Forum to Address FCC Policies on Media Diversity

CWA-TNG and CWA-NABET will join other groups in a Columbia University Law School forum next week to pressure the FCC to back off rule changes that would let big media companies get even bigger.

Jan 10, 2003

Sprint Strike Imminent if No Agreement

With frustration mounting at seven local bargaining tables, Jan. 10 will be the strike date that could involve 2,000 Sprint workers.

Jan 10, 2003

CWA Loses District 2 Staff Rep, 3 Retired Leaders

Jan 10, 2003

GE Workers to Strike Over Health Care

Members of IUE-CWA at General Electric Co. will go on a two-day strike starting at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, January 14, to press their fight for affordable health care.

Dec 20, 2002