Jan 1, 2012
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
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
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
Two Stories: 'Income Inequality Tied to Decline in Unions' and 'Restore the Basic Bargain'
Jan 1, 2012
Every 10 years, following the U.S. Census, congressional and state legislative districts are redrawn in every state.
Jan 1, 2012
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Oct 1, 2011
Jeanette Spoor could be living a life of leisure in retirement. Instead she’s at rallies, on picket lines, meeting with allies to build coalitions of activists and, most recently, helping lead protests against a New York congresswoman who wants to kill Medicare.
“I just don’t think I could go to sleep at night without giving it my best shot,” says Spoor, the president of CWA Local 1103’s Retired Members’ Chapter. “I have stamina and energy and I’m going to fight for what I believe in.”
Oct 1, 2011
Trading lazy summer days for the chance to make a difference, CWA activists turned up the heat on lawmakers at “August Accountability” events from coast to coast.
Together with allies, they packed town hall meetings, protested outside politicians’ district offices, leafleted at airports, wrote letters and made phone calls throughout August and early September. And now they’re ready for more.
Oct 1, 2011
A deluge of new laws are forcing Americans to fight for the most basic right of all in a democracy: the right to vote. In Ohio, Florida, Wisconsin and other states where GOP governors and state legislatures spent the first part of 2011 attacking workers’ rights, voter suppression was next on the agenda. Here’s what happening in three states and what CWA members and allies are doing about it.
Oct 1, 2011
Not only does Wisconsin now require all voters to show state-issued photo ID, Gov. Scott Walker’s administration has even tried to make it harder for people to get the identification they need.
The Republican governor ordered 10 DMV offices around the state closed this summer, but public outrage forced him to reverse the decision. But CWA members say there are still many battles to fight.
Oct 1, 2011
Ohio’s law cuts the early voting period from 35 days to 16, bars poll workers from redirecting lost voters to their correct precinct, and bans county election boards from continuing to send mail ballot applications to all registered voters.
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