Jul 1, 2010
Members of CWA’s Stewards Army in Virginia produced a big win for Verizon workers and consumers and successfully fought back against Verizon’s effort to have telephone service for residential and business consumers deregulated.
Jul 1, 2010
In 2007, CWA Convention delegates voted to add four diversity “at large” seats to the Executive Board to better ensure that all CWA voices were being heard at the top level of the union. Today, leaders of CWA committees focusing on minority and women’s issues say they’re pleased with the results.
Mar 2, 2010
The March 2010 version of The CWA News is available for download in full-color PDF. You can also view the articles here.
Mar 1, 2010
The “Shame on Whirlpool” campaign is going strong, with CWA, IUE-CWA and AFL-CIO activists pressing the company not to close its Evansville, Ind., refrigerator plant and move those jobs to Mexico.
Mar 1, 2010
CWA is working to help laid-off workers in Ohio train for clean, “green” energy and manufacturing jobs through a new federal government grant.
Mar 1, 2010
CWA President Larry Cohen told the House Judiciary Committee that the proposed Comcast/NBC Universal merger should be assessed in terms of jobs, the impact on competition, and the likely negative effect on the emerging Internet video marketplace.
Mar 1, 2010
CWA members in West Virginia and other states are keeping up the fight against Verizon’s plan to sell 4.8 million landlines in 14 states to Frontier Communications. A broad coalition of union members, consumers, public interest groups and community leaders are flooding elected officials and other decision-makers with thousands of letters and phone calls.
Mar 1, 2010
It’s been 18 long months of bargaining with NBC, but NABET-CWA members are energized, using creative strategies to build support from viewers and make sure that management knows members are determined to gain a fair contract.
Mar 1, 2010
More than seven years ago, United Airlines’ flight attendants took steep pay cuts when their company filed for bankruptcy. Management also terminated workers’ pensions, cut retiree health care and eroded working conditions. Those cuts were scheduled to end on Jan. 7, when the contract became amendable.
Mar 1, 2010
CWAers rallied with hundreds of union activists in late February to support full collective bargaining rights for the nation’s 40,000 airport security officers.
Mar 1, 2010
Working with the founders of Free Press, TNG-CWA is preparing to build “an army of foot soldiers” to ensure that journalism survives even as the industry itself is changing.
Mar 1, 2010
It took two years of tough bargaining, but University Professional and Technical Employees/CWA Local 9119 has won a tentative agreement covering 9,000 researchers and technicians at the University of California.
Mar 1, 2010
Hundreds of CWA public workers rallied outside the state capitol calling on the state legislature to stop the “blame game” directed at public workers and work for a fair resolution of the state’s budget crisis.
Dec 1, 2009
The lastest version of The CWA News is available for download in full-color PDF. You can also view the articles here.
Dec 1, 2009
"Working at this job is dirty and dangerous and I'm taking risks anyway. Oh, if I had the time and the proper equipment I could do the job safely each day. Everybody here says they're sticklers for safety, And I'm not here to say that they lie. I'm saying we just come to work here, We don't come to die."
Dec 1, 2009
For workers in just about every private industry workplace, federal and state Occupational Safety and Health laws spell out protections and safeguards to help keep workplaces free from hazards.
Dec 1, 2009
Lifting patients in hospitals and other care facilities is one of the leading causes of neck and back injuries suffered by health care workers in the United States. It also is a leading cause of injury to patients.
Dec 1, 2009
"One of the reasons it took so long to get this law is that TEAs were thought of as 'meter maids,'" Huntley said. "In the 1960s, the first agents were women, and that's what they were called. The name stuck. They were seen as doing clerical work that didn't require protection."
Dec 1, 2009
Almost nine years ago, one of the first actions taken by the Bush administration was the repeal of a federal ergonomics standard issued just months earlier by the outgoing Clinton administration. Left in place, the OSHA standard, some 10 years in the making, could have prevented tens of millions of work-related injuries. Among those most vulnerable are CWA members in customer service, manufacturing, health care and related occupations.
Dec 1, 2009
Workplace and hazard mapping is a tool that a number of unions are now using to identify unsafe job areas by literally producing a floor map of the worksite.
