Mar 7, 2011
Thousands of union workers are standing strong at the statehouse in Indianapolis, pushing back against a Republican governor and legislature that want to weaken workers’ collective bargaining rights. Crowds of more than 4,000 filled the halls of the statehouse, standing up for Indiana families and workers’ rights.
Mar 7, 2011
Do public employee bargaining rights cause budget deficits like some politicians and right-wing extremists claim? The facts, and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, say no way.
Mar 7, 2011
The state legislature is going after public workers’ pensions, jobs and, for municipal workers, their bargaining rights. “Members of CWA Local 6012 in Broken Arrow and Stillwater will lose their voice on the job if this measure goes through,” CWA District 6 Vice President Andy Milburn said. State workers, members of Oklahoma State Workers/CWA Local 6086, already have made big economic sacrifices, taking two furlough days a month, the equivalent of a 10 percent pay cut. But the legislature wants more.
Mar 7, 2011
Members of the Texas State Employees Union/CWA Local 6186 have formed a coalition with 36 other unions, civil rights and community groups that’s working for a fair approach to close the state’s budget deficit. The Texas Forward Coalition is diverse. In addition to TSEU, it includes the Christian Life Commission, the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities, and United Way.
Mar 7, 2011
Within a month of taking office, New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez fired the director of the state’s Public Employee Relations Board. “That action makes it next to impossible for the agency to enforce the state’s public workers’ bargaining law,” said District 7 Staff Representative Robin Gould, a former state worker, and CWA’s legislative political coordinator for New Mexico. “It’s like abolishing the entire National Labor Relations Board.”
Mar 7, 2011
In Tennessee, a broad coalition of unions and community supporters is fighting extreme proposals by the governor and some state legislators to eliminate collective bargaining for teachers, block public workers from making voluntary political donations and end the deduction of union and association dues from government paychecks.
Mar 7, 2011
In Missouri, the biggest assault against workers is coming from the state Senate, where the leadership is pushing a right to work (for less) bill to destroy private sector unions and a paycheck deception bill to destroy public sector ones.
Mar 7, 2011
The University of California is proposing $500 million in budget cuts to help reduce the state’s deficit. The problem is that most of those cuts are aimed at UC staff and faculty’s pension and health care benefits and at students, who face a big jump in fees.
Mar 1, 2011
The Spring 2011 version of The CWA News is available for download in full-color PDF. You can also view the articles here.
Jan 25, 2011
We have been notified of a change that will be effective April 1, 2011.
Dec 22, 2010
CWA members at AT&T Advertising Solutions, formerly AT&T Yellow Pages, and AT&T Internet Services have overwhelming ratified separate agreements. Members had voted down earlier tentative agreements; bargaining resumed and new settlements were reached.
Dec 1, 2010
The results of the midterm elections were a disaster, and for working and middle class families, the new Congress will be the worst in decades. This isn’t because the Republicans or Democrats won the election. It’s definitely because corporations spent billions of dollars in this election cycle and now are ready to call in their favors.
Dec 1, 2010
CWA locals are taking on Comcast and coming through with good contracts and strong bargaining units. That’s exactly what happened in Detroit and Port Huron, Mich., where members of Locals 4100 and 4008 negotiated and overwhelmingly ratified new contracts.
Dec 1, 2010
TNG-CWA members are keeping up the fight for job rights — and winning: • A panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld $5 million in damages for Chinese Daily News workers who faced harassment, threats and firings while trying to organize with Local 9400 beginning in 2001. The battle led to a lawsuit over unpaid overtime and no breaks. TNG-CWA called the ruling a “great precedent,” confirming that most reporters are covered by wage and hour law.
Dec 1, 2010
Local union leaders and activists in District 6 — Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Kansas — have signed up nearly 4,000 new members since the district launched an aggressive, one-on-one organizing initiative in 2010 with a special focus on internal organizing.
Dec 1, 2010
T-Mobile and parent company Deutsche Telekom are global operations. So CWA has been pursuing a global strategy to make sure T-Mobile USA workers get the union voice they want.
Dec 1, 2010
Good paying jobs, strong contracts, and access to the jobs of the future are big issues for CWAers at CenturyLink, the company formed by the acquisition between CenturyLink and Qwest Communications.
Dec 1, 2010
This year, hundreds more AT&T Mobility workers have won a CWA voice, and that builds our union’s bargaining power.
Dec 1, 2010
“We came to America for opportunity and to escape oppression,” says Abdi Buni, a taxi driver and organizer with CWA Local 7777. “That’s why I am helping SuperShuttle drivers at Denver International Airport (DIA) get a union like I did.”
Dec 1, 2010
Flight attendants at Delta Air Lines want a fair election, not one dominated by management interference, harassment and surveillance.
