Oct 20, 2011
With a focus on good jobs, fair taxes and other policies to rebuild America's middle class, CWA and other unions are helping the Occupy Wall Street movement grow, from Boston to Austin and cities up and down the West Coast.
Oct 13, 2011
Ohio union activists campaigning tirelessly to repeal the state law stripping collective bargaining rights from public workers got a new volunteer last week when CWA President Larry Cohen turned out for an AFL-CIO precinct walk in Columbus.
Oct 7, 2011
CWA recommends that the Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission resolve their issues with AT&T so that the AT&T/T-Mobile merger can provide real benefits for consumers, workers, and communities.
Oct 6, 2011
Fighting for economic justice and good jobs to rebuild America's middle class, CWA members and thousands of other union members joined Occupy Wall Street demonstrators for a march in New York's financial district on Wednesday. CWA also participated in San Francisco and other cities as similar rallies and protests spread nationwide.
Oct 6, 2011
CWA members will join fellow activists for workers' rights and social justice in a march to the new Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., memorial on the National Mall on Saturday, Oct. 15, an event postponed in August due to Hurricane Irene.
Oct 6, 2011
CWA is urging Congress to reject the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, saying the badly flawed deal effectively endorses an economic and legal system that is designed to block workers' collective bargaining rights and workplace protections.
Oct 4, 2011
October is Customer Service Professionals month and the start of a major campaign to focus attention on the issues facing customer service and call center workers.
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
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
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
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.
Sep 29, 2011
New York City NABET-CWA members had a busy morning Wednesday as they hosted a "combined mobilization rally" that made appearances outside the Today Show and Good Morning America, with a stop in between at a midtown Verizon Wireless store.
Sep 29, 2011
New state income data illustrates how unionization improves the pay of all workers, whether they're in a union or not.
Sep 22, 2011
CWA and other unions Wednesday defeated an effort by Republicans on the Senate Appropriations Committee to prevent the National Labor Relations Board from carrying out its mission to protect workers against employers' unfair labor practices.
