Sep 22, 2011
Speaking to 10,000 delegates at the ver.di convention in Liepzig, Germany, CWA President Larry Cohen thanked ver.di members for their support and determination to help T-Mobile USA workers gain a union voice.
Sep 22, 2011
Sign up now to take part in next Thursday's Verizon update call, when national and district CWA leaders will provide the latest information and take your questions.
Sep 22, 2011
A TV ad in the campaign to overturn Ohio's new anti-collective bargaining law describes the economic sacrifices public employees have made repeatedly to try to help the state and local communities balance their budgets.
Sep 15, 2011
In a big show of support for Hyatt hotel workers fighting for better working conditions, CWA members enthusiastically joined picket lines as UNITE HERE staged a week-long strike in four cities.
Sep 15, 2011
Addressing Congress last Thursday, President Obama laid out a comprehensive bill for job creation and stressed his support for collective bargaining.
Sep 15, 2011
Despite one of the longest contract battles in union history, members of the Dayton Newspaper Guild-CWA at the Dayton Daily News remain tenacious and determined.
Sep 8, 2011
President Obama makes a stand for bargaining rights and other measures to create quality jobs. CWA calls out Congress to step up and put our country above politics.
Sep 8, 2011
Showing Verizon and downtown Washington, D.C., what solidarity looks like, 500 CWA, AFSCME and UNI Global Union members marched and rallied Wednesday in support of Verizon workers fighting for a fair contract.
Sep 8, 2011
With next week's deadline looming to pass an FAA funding bill or risk having the agency shut down again over Republicans' anti-union demands, AFA-CWA flight attendants gathered with pilots and air traffic controllers Wednesday to pressure Congress to act before midnight Sept. 16.
Sep 8, 2011
Detroit-area CWA members cheered along with thousands of their union brothers and sisters Monday as an impassioned President Obama gave a strong pro-labor, pro-worker address.
Sep 8, 2011
CWA organizers who are helping American Airlines airport and reservations agents campaign for a voice at work are looking for all current, former and retired CWA members who are among the airline's 850 home-based reservation agents.
Sep 8, 2011
U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is speaking out about the link between declining union membership and the erosion of America's middle class.
Sep 2, 2011
For working families, this Labor Day brings a continued free fall from the middle class standard of living that American workers once enjoyed.
Sep 1, 2011
In important victories for workers, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has reversed two earlier board decisions and issued a new rule ordering employers to post notices informing workers that they have a legal right to form a union.
Sep 1, 2011
As bargaining with Verizon reconvened in Rye, N.Y., this week for 35,000 CWA members and 10,000 more at IBEW, negotiators went back to the table with a clear message: workers will not allow the company to destroy their collective bargaining rights or decades of hard-won progress made in past negotiations.
Sep 1, 2011
Twenty-five of America's richest CEOs took home more pay last year than their companies paid in federal income taxes, according to a new report from the Institute for Policy Studies.
Aug 25, 2011
Verizon workers returned to work this week stronger than ever in their fight for a fair contract, fortified by the bravery they showed in striking during a recession and by the public's strong embrace of their courage and solidarity.
Aug 25, 2011
Outside a deli called "Grandma's" in Duluth, Minn., this week, chanting demonstrators — including some angry grandmas — shamed a GOP congressman who was charging people to attend his so-called town hall meeting inside.
Aug 25, 2011
Following revelations that Colombia may have misused U.S. government aid to probe and undermine the activities of labor leaders and union activists, CWA President Larry Cohen and United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard are calling on the House Select Intelligence Committee to investigate the matter.
Aug 25, 2011
Citing case after case in which employers have systematically thwarted and delayed workers' efforts to organize, CWA is urging the National Labor Relations Board to move forward with rule changes to streamline and speed up union elections.
