Jun 22, 2011
CWA Members Rally June 22 as Bargaining with Verizon East Gets Underway
Get Mobilized! Verizon East Bargaining Begins Today
Jun 20, 2011
CWA: The Facts Support AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
Final FCC Comment Filing Deadline Offers Opportunity to Review Positives of Proposed ATT-TMO Merger, Including Expanding Broadband Access and Benefits to Consumers and Workers
May 31, 2011
CWA: AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Will Create as Many as 96,000 Quality Jobs
CWA told the Federal Communications Commission today that the AT&T/T-Mobile merger will create quality jobs and accelerate critically needed broadband buildout.
May 26, 2011
Cohen Meets with Lawmakers on AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
On Capitol Hill this week, CWA President Larry Cohen met with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute and Democratic members of the California delegation on how the AT&T/T-Mobile merger will benefit workers and consumers.
May 26, 2011
Organizing Roundup: Facebook Helps Rural Va. Workers Join CWA
Seeking better pay, benefits and working conditions, 40 AT&T Mobility workers in southern Virginia became members of CWA Local 2204 last week through majority sign-up.
May 19, 2011
CWA Tells FCC to Act Quickly to Reform Universal Service Fund
A public forum in Lincoln, Neb., Wednesday, gave local leaders an opportunity to press the Federal Communications Commission to move forward on high-speed broadband.
The forum was part of an FCC workshop on universal service fund reform. The FCC is looking at how to modernize the USF, established by the rewrite of the Telecommunications Act in 1996.
May 12, 2011
Pressure On T-Mobile USA Increases Over Worker Harassment
Washington, D.C. – May 12, 2011 – Hundreds of union colleagues in Germany today marched in support of their brothers and sisters at the Communications Workers of America in their effort to offer employees of T-Mobile USA the option of enjoying union representation.
May 12, 2011
Cohen Testimony: AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Good for Consumers, Workers
Emphasizing the accelerated growth of high-speed broadband and other benefits for consumers and workers, CWA President Larry Cohen testified Wednesday on Capitol Hill in support of the proposed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile.
May 12, 2011
1,000 CWAers Reach Tentative Agreement at Cincinnati Bell
A tentative agreement for 1,000 CWA members at Cincinnati Bell, reached just hours before the current contract expired, improves job security and wages, and holds the line on health care.
May 11, 2011
AT&T T-Mobile Merger Will Expand Broadband Access, Benefit Consumers and Workers
Communications Workers of America (CWA) President Larry Cohen today told a Congressional panel that the proposed merger between AT&T and T-Mobile will accelerate broadband deployment, benefit consumers, and positively impact employees.
Apr 28, 2011
‘A Burning Issue’: Heat Stress a Serious Threat to Outdoor Techs
Just in time for summer's heat and humidity, CWA's Occupational Safety and Health Department has issued a vital report examining how heat stress endangers members in the telecom industry.
Apr 21, 2011
‘Don’t BYPASS Buffalo’ Campaign Presses Verizon to Install FiOS
Led by CWA, a broad-based coalition of labor and community groups kicked off a campaign this week demanding that Verizon bring its lightning-fast FiOS service to Buffalo, N.Y.
Apr 18, 2011
Administrative Changes to the Long term Savings & Security Plan (LTSSP)
Commencing July 1, 2011, Alcatel-Lucent's payroll will be handled by ADP. In connection with conversion to ADP, certain administrative changes will occur with respect to participants' elections to contribute to the Lucent-Technologies
Mar 31, 2011
Union, Consumer Alliance Puts Brakes on NJ Telecom Deregulation
A coalition of New Jersey CWA members, the AARP, Citizen Action, the League of Municipalities and other groups has succeeded in scuttling, for now, a telecom deregulation bill that would have hurt consumers, workers and quality telephone service.
Mar 20, 2011
T- Mobile USA and AT&T Merger Means Faster and More Widespread Broadband
The acquisition of T-Mobile USA by AT&T will mean greater access to high speed communications, especially for residents in rural communities.
Mar 10, 2011
CWAers, Global Union Movement Encourages T-Mobile Women on International Women’s Day
Marking the 100th annual International Women's Day on Tuesday, CWA members and union supporters around the world offered encouraging words to more than 10,000 women who work at T-Mobile USA, which is fighting its workers every step of the way as they fight to organize a union.
Mar 9, 2011
ver.di Supports Wisconsin Public Workers and All Workers Who Want Bargaining Rights
ver.di, the union representing more than 2 million workers in Germany, has contacted Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, urging him to “choose a constructive path and stand by the commitments that have already been set out in legally-negotiated collective agreements.”
ver.di and CWA are working together and have formed TU, a joint global union representing T-Mobile workers in Germany and the U.S. German workers and citizens are appalled by Deutsche Telekom’s double standard: T-Mobile workers in Germany have full bargaining rights and workers’ rights are respected by management, contrary to the fear and harassment workers face in the U.S.
Mar 3, 2011
AFL-CIO Joins CWA, Global Campaign for T-Mobile USA Workers
The AFL-CIO Executive Council announced March 2 that it is joining with CWA and other global unions in their campaign to help T-Mobile USA workers "win their basic labor rights, gain a voice on the job, and bargain for a better life."
Mar 1, 2011
Long Term Savings & Security Plan (LTSSP) Participant Mailing
We just received the attached letters from the company. They will be sending this information to all our members shortly.
Feb 17, 2011
Global Unions Take on T-Mobile: ‘The World is Watching’
The global union movement has joined with CWA and ver.di, the union representing German workers at T-Mobile and parent company Deutsche Telekom, to press DT to end its double standard of supporting workers' rights in Europe but completely opposing them in the United States.
