Feb 21, 2012
CWA Seeks Conditions on Verizon Bid for Cable Spectrum
CWA calls for specific conditions to ensure competition, protect consumer choice and promote good jobs in Verizon's spectrum bid.
Dec 15, 2011
CWA Study Exposes Overseas Call Center Risks to Personal Information
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
CWA Supports New Bi-Partisan Call Center Jobs Legislation
The Communications Workers of America is strongly backing new, bi-partisan legislation introduced in the House of Representatives today that would ban federal grants and loans to corporations who move U.S. call center jobs overseas. CWA represents 700,000 workers in telecommunications and other sectors; more than 150,000 are customer service professionals.
Oct 27, 2011
Click Here: A Workers’ Roundup of the Web’s Best
Before your friends and family sign up for the next cell phone contract, urge them to check out www.getunionwireless.com.
Oct 4, 2011
Customer Service Professionals Month Recognizes Workers in a Tough Profession
October is Customer Service Professionals month and the start of a major campaign to focus attention on the issues facing customer service and call center workers.
Oct 1, 2011
Top 10 Reasons to Take Action
10) To show our children we really can change the world, or at least our part of it.
9) To remind corporations and elected officials that ordinary people do make a difference.
Sep 29, 2011
Sprint Takes Hypocrisy to New Level
First it was a bad case of sour grapes for Sprint when AT&T replaced the company as a potential merger partner with T-Mobile. Now Sprint's real motives for its anti-AT&T campaign have become clear: after protesting loudly that a merger would hurt consumers and wireless competition, Sprint now says it wants to buy T-Mobile and thinks regulators will approve the deal.
Sep 28, 2011
We’re Turning Up the Heat in our Fight for Middle Class Jobs at Verizon and Verizon Wireless
Verizon and Verizon Wireless – along with millions of tech geeks worldwide – are eagerly anticipating the release of the iPhone 5. Now is the time to ramp up our mobilization for a fair contract!
Sep 28, 2011
Sprint’s True Motive For Opposing AT&T/T-Mobile Merger: It Wants T-Mobile for Itself
Sprint’s opposition to the proposed AT&T/T-Mobile merger has been revealed to be nothing more than a classic bait-and-switch — with the Sprint CEO saying out of one side of his mouth the merger would hurt consumers — while talking out the other about buying T-Mobile for itself.
Sep 19, 2011
Frontier - Play Fair with Your Workers!
Today, FTR co-sponsored the Summersville, WV, Chamber of Commerce Golf Classic. CWA members delivered a message to management with leaflets and an airplane banner flying over the course: PLAY FAIR WITH YOUR WORKERS!
Sep 1, 2011
DOJ Seeks to Block AT&T Deal with T-Mobile, Jeopardizing New Jobs
Just as AT&T announced this week that it would return 5,000 wireless jobs to the United States following its pending merger with T-Mobile USA, the U.S. Justice Department announced it was seeking to block the deal.
Aug 31, 2011
AT&T Will Return 5,000 Jobs to U.S. on Completion of AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
Breaking: AT&T will bring back a net 5,000 quality wireless jobs to the U.S. and commits to no job losses for call center workers at AT&T Mobility and T-Mobile USA.
Aug 20, 2011
CWA, IBEW Reach Agreement on Bargaining with Verizon; Members to Return to Work Tuesday, August 23
Members of CWA and IBEW at Verizon Communications will return to work on Tuesday, Aug. 23, at which time the contract will be back in force for an indefinite period. We have reached agreement with Verizon on how bargaining will proceed and how it will be restructured. The major issues remain to be discussed, but overall, issues now are focused and narrowed.
Aug 8, 2011
CWA: Verizon, Show Up for Bargaining
Verizon workers are waiting for management to demonstrate that it's ready to bargain. In fact, we're looking for Verizon to stop canceling bargaining sessions that have been scheduled.
Aug 6, 2011
Verizon Refuses to Get Serious About Bargaining: Workers Standing Up for Middle Class Jobs, Benefits
Even at the 11th hour, with contracts set to expire, Verizon continues to seek to strip away 50 years of contract gains. Following the game plan of Wisconsin, Verizon is trying to destroy the collective bargaining process by refusing to engage seriously on the issues.
Jul 30, 2011
Massive Red Wave Sweeps New York
More than 15,000 Verizon workers and their supporters massed Saturday outside Verizon headquarters in New York City, roaring approval for their bargaining committee and booing the corporate executives who want to take away workers’ pensions, health care, sick days, and holidays, suspend weekend differentials and replace regular pay raises with merit pay.
Jul 19, 2011
T-Mobile Workers Win Union Voice in Connecticut
T-Mobile USA technicians in Connecticut today voted for representation by the Communications Workers of America-TU. The vote was 8-7 for CWA-TU representation with one challenged ballot of a union supporter who had recently transferred into the unit. The challenge will not affect the outcome. The Connecticut technicians are the first to vote for union representation at T-Mobile USA. T-Mobile operations in Germany, owned by Deutsche Telekom, fully respect workers’ right to bargain collectively, but U.S. management historically had undertaken a campaign of delaying tactics and interference to intimidate workers. The Connecticut techs stood strong against these tactics and for a union voice.
Jul 9, 2011
Blumenthal Meets with T-Mobile Technicians, Sees “Clear Majority Support” for Unionization
United States Senator Richard Blumenthal met today with several of the 15 Connecticut T-Mobile technicians and with representatives of the Communications Workers of America, and said he believes that there is "clear majority support" among the techs for representation by the T-Mobile workers' division of the CWA, CWA-TU.
Jun 30, 2011
How Broadband Will Benefit a Green Economy
The Blue Green Alliance (BGA) in coordination with its members, the Communications Workers of America (CWA), the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has released an updated version of its landmark 2010 report “Networking the Green Economy,” urging policy makers to create an environment that allows for long term public and private investment in high-speed broadband to build more sustainable communities in rural and urban America.
Jun 30, 2011
Local 3010 Telecom Installers Ratify Strong Contracts in Puerto Rico
CWA Local 3010 members at two subcontractors for the Puerto Rico Telephone Company have ratified strong three-year contracts that include improved grievance and arbitration procedures, new bonuses and more leave time.
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