Feb 3, 2012
The FAA Reauthorization Bill contains a cynical attack on organizing rights that should never have even been considered. It is consistent with lobbying by Delta and the leadership of the Right Wing Majority.
Feb 2, 2012
The 700,000-member Communications Workers of America today endorsed the re-election of President Barack Obama as President of the United States. In a unanimous endorsement, CWA's Executive Board said:
"In the last year, we've seen the start of a growing movement to take back our country and to end the control of corporations and the wealthy that truly threatens our democracy. We need elected leaders who support this movement to restore democracy. President Obama is that leader."
Feb 1, 2012
As nearly a thousand local leaders from all 50 states swarmed Capitol Hill today, the Communications Workers of America announced the ever-growing bi-partisan support for the job creating “U.S. Call Center Worker and Consumer Protection Act” now includes an additional seven members of the U.S. House of Representatives who signed on this week.
Jan 30, 2012
Rewriting decades of labor law without debate or discussion sets a dangerous precedent.
Jan 27, 2012
In his State of The Union address and a series of events around the nation, President Barack Obama has noted the damages inflicted by the trend of off-shoring American jobs and has called for companies to reinvest in American workers by focusing on domestic insourcing.
Jan 26, 2012
A huge victory for workers' rights. Cablevision workers vote CWA!
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 18, 2012
A group of unions and environmental organizations issued this statement on the Obama administration's decision on the Keystone XL pipeline.
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 9, 2012
In the rush before the holidays, you may have missed a rarity these days in Washington – the introduction of an actual, honest-to-God, bi-partisan bill focused on U.S. jobs.
Jan 4, 2012
President Obama's leadership, in announcing his intent to appoint three members to the NLRB, gives workers a chance at justice on the job.
Dec 20, 2011
CWA joins Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) in asking why the GOP refuses to use the same process to pass FAA Reauthorization legislation that will create tens of thousands of jobs and modernize America’s air traffic system.
Dec 16, 2011
Mobile billboards in seven Verizon cities will make sure holiday shoppers know all about Verizon and Verizon Wireless's corporate greed.
Dec 16, 2011
U.S. Court of Appeals affirms NMB rule that sets democratic election standard for union representation elections in the airline industry.
Dec 15, 2011
New report spotlights the risk of fraud at overseas call centers and the lack of legal safeguards to protect consumer personal information.
Dec 7, 2011
American Airlines passenger service agents supporting the Communications Workers of America have filed a petition with the National Mediation Board calling for a union representation election for the 9,700 passenger service agents at American Airlines.
Dec 2, 2011
Our government should address anti-trust concerns as part of the AT&T/T-Mobile deal and move to seize the real opportunity of increased jobs, investment and economic development.
Dec 1, 2011
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Rep. John Mica (FL-07), today proposed legislation that represents another attempt to attack working Americans at the behest of Delta Air Lines, and could again delay the creation of tens of thousands of good, family-supporting jobs across the country through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Bill.
Nov 22, 2011
Today's action by the Federal Communications Commission on the AT&T/T-Mobile merger is a job killer at a time of 9 percent unemployment.
CWA President Larry Cohen on MSNBC’s The ED Show
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