May 9, 2013
More than 100 people attended the workshops about the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) held at CWA’s Convention in Pittsburgh last month. We will be posting answers to questions brought up during those workshops, and others as they arise, here on the CWA Health Care web page. Today we'll look at the excise tax on high cost plans and how people in dangerous jobs will be protected.
May 8, 2013
House Republicans would like us to think they’re family friendly. But their nearly party-line vote of 223-204 on the “Working Families Flexibility Act” is just the latest piece of GOP legislation that does the exact opposite of what its name suggests.
May 8, 2013
The Consumer Common Interst Committee met on May 1, 2013 for our second meeting.
May 8, 2013
Holli Thomas had a simple request. She wanted to know if the Bettie Page store where she worked in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood could close an hour earlier than its normal 8 p.m. closing time.
May 8, 2013
More than 100 people attended the workshops about the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) held at CWA’s Convention in Pittsburgh last month. We will be posting answers to questions brought up during those workshops, and others as they arise, here on the CWA Health Care web page. Today's question concerns mandatory adult dependent coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
May 7, 2013
More than 100 people attended the workshops about the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) held at CWA’s Convention in Pittsburgh last month. We will be posting answers to questions brought up during those workshops, and others as they arise, here on the CWA Health Care web page. Today's question asks how Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) will be affected by the law.
May 2, 2013
CWA President Larry Cohen and CWA activists joined more than 6,000 coal miners, their families and supporters from across the country in St. Louis on Monday to protest Patriot Coal's bankruptcy court motion to slash healthcare and pension benefits for tens of thousands of retired miners.
May 2, 2013
Bargaining updates for AT&T West, Registered nurses at Kenmore Mercy Hospital, Piedmont Flight Attendants, Guild members at Consumer Reports, California Federation of Interpreters and more.
May 2, 2013
CWA issued the following statement on President Barack Obama’s appointment of Tom Wheeler to serve as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.
May 2, 2013
Across the country, union members joined with people of faith, immigrant families and community activists on May Day to stand up for commonsense immigration reform. May 1 is the day that working people around the world celebrate and demonstrate for workers’ rights. It’s a recognized holiday in more than 80 countries.
May 2, 2013
The Save Our Community coalition, representing student organizations, faith groups, local non-profit organizations and the Texas State Employees Union, CWA Local 6186, is protesting a University of Texas proposal to privatize and outsource campus services and downsize staff.
May 2, 2013
TNG-CWA and CWA have called on the Tribune Co. to pledge to sell its holdings to a buyer that will protect the objectivity of the news product.
May 2, 2013
In the immortal words of Mother Jones, "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.” CWA members took to the streets for stronger workplace protections in honor of Workers’ Memorial Day on April 28.
May 2, 2013
A new EPI Policy Center report finds that Missouri’s two proposed “paycheck protection” bills actually do little in the way of protection. In fact, the legislation would silence working Americans’ political voice, while leaving corporations free to spend unlimited amounts of money in elections.
May 2, 2013
Reports and other information from the 74th CWA convention are being posted at www.cwa-union.org/pages/cwa_annual_convention_proceedings.
May 1, 2013
A final version of the AT&T Mobility "Orange" agreement has been released. Click through the read it.
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