Jan 1, 2012
Building Our Movement: CWA and Occupy
Three stories from coast to coast; "Now is the time to help grow this movement,’ ‘At the end, I really didn't want to stop’ and ‘I experienced a sense of community that I will never forget.’
Jan 1, 2012
Top Ten Reasons Why the U.S. Senate is Broken
Top Ten Reasons Why the U.S. Senate is Broken
Jan 1, 2012
Voter ID: Not as Simple as It Seems
About 21 million American adults don’t have a government-issued photo identification card, or can’t get access to one.
Jan 1, 2012
What the Broken Senate Rules Mean For Working Families
What the Broken Senate Rules Mean For Working Families
Jan 1, 2012
Maine Citizens Keep Early Registration
In Maine, voters approved a citizens’ veto of a law that would have taken away same-day voter registration by a 60 percent vote.
Jan 1, 2012
Fighting Back to Defend Voting Rights
CWA and allies are fighting back in the states to repeal restrictive voter ID laws and to safeguard measures that encourage and support citizens in voting: early voting, voting by mail, same day voter registration and broad voter registration efforts.
Jan 1, 2012
The Truth about ‘Voter Fraud’
From 2002 to 2007, when the Bush administration ordered its U.S. attorney generals in every state to look for and prosecute cases of voter fraud, only 120 people had been charged nationwide, with just 86 convictions, out of the 300 million votes cast.
Jan 1, 2012
The Attack on Voting Rights
Many state legislatures have been working overtime to pass laws to restrict the rights of more than 5 million Americans — mostly students, people of color, lower income citizens, people with disabilities and senior citizens — to vote in the 2012 elections.
Jan 1, 2012
Other Voices
Two Stories: 'Income Inequality Tied to Decline in Unions' and 'Restore the Basic Bargain'
Jan 1, 2012
How Redistricting Can Block the Democratic Process
Every 10 years, following the U.S. Census, congressional and state legislative districts are redrawn in every state.
Jan 1, 2012
Workers’ Rights Under Attack in the States
CWA members in Ohio, New Jersey, Wisconsin, New Mexico and other states are seeing a concentrated attack on the rights of working people to have a voice on the job and in the political process.
Jan 1, 2012
U.S. Elections Up For Sale
In its January 2010 Citizens United decision, the U.S. Supreme Court turned election and political spending upside down. With the Court’s determination that “corporations are people too,” with free speech rights and other individual liberties, it eliminated the campaign spending restrictions that were put in place more than a century ago to stop corporations and other groups from exerting undue influence and spending millions of dollars and more in the electoral process.
Dec 22, 2011
How We’re Fighting Back—Corporate Money in Politics
CWA, our Legislative Political Action Teams in every district and our progressive allies are fighting back against this flood of corporate and wealthy dollars that is destroying our democratic process. Here’s how.
Oct 1, 2011
WORKING Together: It’s All About Movement Building
It’s all about movement building
It will take all of us, union members, progressive activists, the civil rights community, environmentalists, people of faith, students and others to restore the rights and standard of living of working families.
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.
Oct 1, 2011
‘The Union is Us’
From Union Bench Warmer to Quarterback
Kenny Distance used to be a “sit-on-the-sidelines” kind of union member. “I let the shop steward and other members do the work,” Distance says. “All I would care about is opening the finished contract to the page about the money. That was good enough for me.”
Oct 1, 2011
‘It’s Cool to Be in a Union’
Young Verizon Worker Embraces Her New Union
Timothy Staples — her first name comes from a flowering grass — never had a union at work until she got a job last February at a Verizon call center in Salisbury, Md.
Oct 1, 2011
‘Why Are You Supporting the Competition, Mom?’
Standing with Verizon/Verizon Wireless Workers an Education for Kids and Grown-Ups
Kathy Hayes works for AT&T Mobility in Champaign, Ill., and Stan Wylie works for CenturyLink in Seattle, but it would be easy to mistake them lately for Verizon/Verizon Wireless workers.
Oct 1, 2011
‘I’m Fighting Harder Than Ever’
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and every other politician who spent 2011 beating up on public workers and slashing the services they provide should be forced to talk directly to people like Ellen Vidal.
A teacher turned social worker, Local 1088’s Vidal assists mentally and physically disabled adults, then heads home to care for two adopted children who’ve had severe medical issues of their own. So has Vidal, who endured numerous surgeries after a bad root canal. For the better part of two years, she hung a bag of IV antibiotics from her blinds at work so she could infuse herself every four hours.
Oct 1, 2011
‘I Can’t Just Sit Back and Watch’
CWA Volunteers Fight Tirelessly to Overturn Ohio’s Anti-Bargaining Law It’s because of CWAers like Diane Bailey and Barb Allen that petitions to repeal an anti-bargaining rights law in Ohio had to be hauled to the secretary of state’s office in a semi-truck.
Multimedia
CWA President Larry Cohen on MSNBC’s The ED Show
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Verizon Update - August 18, 2011
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Funeral for the middle class at Ivan Seidenberg’s house
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MSNBC: Verizon workers in sixth day of strike
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Verizon Workers Fight Back
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