Oct 1, 2011
The ability to turn out a large pro-worker vote on Election Day is the only thing that helps even the odds against the hundreds of millions of corporate dollars that pour into political campaigns.
Florida’s Gov. Rick Scott and GOP lawmakers know this. In May, they rammed through a law that severely limits voter registration and early voting.
Oct 1, 2011
CWA Activists Win FAA Reauthorization and Keep Democratic Union Election Standard
Weeks of activism by CWA and AFA-CWA members across the country stopped House Republicans from forcing a second shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration.
Oct 1, 2011
Building a Union at American Airlines
US Airways’ reservations agent Vickey Hoots remembers just how tough her fight for a union was at US Airways. That’s why she spends most of her time helping organize the 9,300 agents at American Airlines.
Oct 1, 2011
Northwest Flight Attendants Keep Up the Fight for Union Rights at Delta
AFA-CWA flight attendants at the former Northwest Airlines, now a part of Delta Air Lines, are keeping up the fight for their union.
Oct 1, 2011
TAKE ACTION — MOVEMENT BUILDING
“We need to look for opportunities to link to other fights in our communities. We need to connect them, from Hyatt Hotels to Verizon stores to the postal workers’ campaign. If we’re there for each other, we all start winning. It’s all about building a movement. We can’t hope for it, we can’t wait for it. We have to fight for it.” — CWA President Larry Cohen
Oct 1, 2011
T-Mobile Organizing Campaign Brings CWAers Satisfaction and More
CWA members who are supporting T-Mobile workers in their campaign to organize know that they are helping themselves as well as the workers.
Jul 1, 2011
The United States is in the grip of an increasingly right wing economic and political agenda. It didn’t start yesterday. For decades, groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have pushed an agenda that today threatens working families.
Jobs keep going overseas, states keep looking to cut critical services, opportunity seems just about gone. Real wages were higher 35 years ago despite huge gains in productivity.
Jul 1, 2011
Once we were a middle class country, with core values of hard work,opportunity, and fairness. Now we're losing our middle class, because big corporations and CEOs have been calling the shots.
This didn’t happen overnight. Corporations have had a strategy to consolidate their hold on the U.S. economy for more than three decades. By every economic measure, they’ve been successful.
Look at what they’ve accomplished: reduced levels of unionization, reduced wages and benefits, reduced or eliminated corporate taxes for many companies, reduced or eliminated regulations, increased trade deals with low-wage countries.
Jul 1, 2011
U.S. Companies are Investing in New Jobs, Just Not in the United States (graph) Source: U.S. Commerce Department
Jul 1, 2011
Over the past 30 years, the incomes of the top 1% of Americans have skyrocketed, while 60% of American families saw no increase. (graph) Source: Congressional Budget Office
Jul 1, 2011
Here are the top 10 corporate freeloaders, as compiled by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
Jul 1, 2011
Here’s a snapshot of how government policies have affected corporations, the wealthy and the rest of us.
Jul 1, 2011
The legacy of the brave Americans who fought for their rights 43 years ago lives on as today’s workers stand strong against a fierce new wave of attacks. Here are snapshots of some of the battles CWA activists and allies are waging across the country.
Jun 1, 2011
The Summer 2011 version of The CWA News is available for download in full-color PDF. You can also view the articles here.
Apr 1, 2011
As a general matter, employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement containing a Union security clause are required, as a condition of employment, to pay an agency fee equal to normal Union dues (and, where applicable, initiation fees). While the wording of these clauses is not perfectly uniform, none requires more than the payment of this agency fee to retain employment. The Communications Workers of America policy on agency fee objections is the Union's means of meeting its legal obligations to employees covered by Union security clauses and of effectuating those employees' legal rights as stated in the applicable decisions of the United States Supreme Court (including Beck v. CWA) and the companion lower court and labor agency decisions. Under the CWA policy, employees who are not members of the Union, but who pay agency fees pursuant to a Union security clause, may request a reduction in that fee based on their objection to certain kinds of Union expenditures.
Mar 8, 2011
Do you find the cover of the CWA News disturbing? We all should. It’s unthinkable that we’re seeing the kind of all-out assault on basic workers’ rights and collective bargaining that we’re seeing now in Wisconsin, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Oklahoma, Missouri, New Mexico and many more states, and in the House of Representatives. Workers’ rights and collective bargaining are under a vicious attack. Our opponents, backed by the Chamber of Commerce and big bucks, right-wing interests like the Koch brothers are promising not to stop until they succeed in taking away the fundamental right of workers in a democracy to join together and bargain collectively. That’s the reality.
Mar 8, 2011
Here’s a quick look at what working families are up against, from Maine to Arizona
Mar 8, 2011
Some 10,000 union members and supporters filled the grounds of the state capitol in Trenton, sending a message of solidarity to Wisconsin public workers and some advice to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie: stop the attacks on public workers. Busloads of CWAers from Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia, Maryland, D.C. and West Virginia made the trip to stand up with public workers, sending a strong message that workers can’t be divided. Despite the pouring rain, union members and supporters cheered the call for workers to have bargaining rights and jeered at politicians’ efforts to divide workers.
Mar 8, 2011
Good jobs and strong communities go hand in hand. That’s the message of Ohio’s new and growing coalition, “Stand Up for Good Jobs and Strong Communities.”
Mar 7, 2011
That was the message that spread like wildfire as Wisconsin union members and supporters stood strong to keep the collective bargaining rights public workers have had for 50 years. As Republican governors and Republican-controlled legislatures in many states attempted to strip away public worker bargaining rights, the state capital in Madison became the starting point of a huge grassroots campaign to stop the attack on workers.
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