Sep 16, 2010
When the National Labor Relations Board finally rejected Xerox's claims and certified the vote by EZ Pass workers for a CWA voice - a vote held 15 MONTHS AGO - you might think that a big-name company like Xerox would stop its union-busting campaign.
Sep 16, 2010
Congress is back, and CWA is working with House and Senate leaders over the short four-week session to move forward on legislation to support good jobs and help middle class families.
Sep 9, 2010
CWA locals are taking on Comcast and coming through with good contracts and solid bargaining units. That's exactly what happened most recently in Detroit and Port Huron, Mich., where members of Locals 4100 and 4008 overwhelmingly ratified new agreements.
Sep 9, 2010
Fleet and passenger service workers at Piedmont Airlines will be voting for CWA representation beginning Oct. 7, the NMB said today.
Sep 9, 2010
One Nation allies in New Jersey held a kickoff news conference and event this week at the State House. CWA's New Jersey coordinator Lionel Leach and District 1 Vice President Chris Shelton were on hand; check out the video at http://event.playonsports.com/widget.html?eventId=11985.
Sep 9, 2010
Starting Sept. 29, Delta/Northwest flight attendants' campaign for bargaining rights officially gets underway, with voting materials set to be mailed out by the National Mediation Board to 20,000 flight attendants. The voting period ends Nov. 3.
Sep 3, 2010
If you're in Minneapolis-St. Paul next Tuesday, join our AFA-CWA brothers and sisters in picketing outside Compass Airlines.
Sep 2, 2010
Members of CWA's growing public safety sector left their annual conference last weekend "pumped and excited," eager to organize, lobby and pass a federal law guaranteeing collective bargaining rights for public safety officers.
Sep 2, 2010
The National Labor Relations Board, by a 2-1 vote, denied a request by Xerox Corp./Affiliated Computer Services to throw out a regional director's decision that certified the EZ Pass workers' union election.
Sep 2, 2010
Across the union movement, activists are taking a stand for Piedmont workers who want a union voice. Piedmont, a subsidiary of US Airways, has hired a notorious union-busting firm, LRI, to keep workers from having a union voice.
Sep 2, 2010
Human Rights Watch has called out Deutsche Telekom/T-Mobile and several other European companies for violating workers' rights in the U.S., while maintaining positive labor relations with unions and workers in their home countries.
Sep 2, 2010
NABET-CWA members at Twin Cities Public Television in Minneapolis have taken their fight for a fair contract to the State Fair, where elected officials have joined hundreds of Minnesotans in signing cards of support for the union.
Aug 26, 2010
With just five weeks until more than a quarter of a million One Nation marchers gather at the Lincoln Memorial, now's the time to sign up for a CWA bus ride to make your voice heard.
Aug 26, 2010
A long-sought back pay award, a court date Monday in the case of 107 locked-out newspaper workers and a strike vote at TV station WAPA are among the victories and battles on the busy calendar at Puerto Rico's TNG-CWA Local 33225, known as UPAGRA.
Aug 26, 2010
New York's Albany Times Union broke the law by dismissing 11 workers last year when the newspaper was supposed to be negotiating lay-off criteria with TNG-CWA, an administrative law judge ruled.
Aug 19, 2010
The National Mediation Board ruled this week that the Delta/Northwest merger created a single carrier, a decision that triggers a union election for 21,000 flight attendants at the newly combined airline.
Aug 19, 2010
Don't miss your chance to join other CWAers and be part of a historic rally a quarter of a million strong on Oct. 2 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. There, workers and retirees, environmentalists, human rights activists and other voices from across the progressive movement will speak as "One Nation" to fight for good jobs, retirement security, bargaining rights and government that works for all of us.
Aug 19, 2010
CWAers, members of the Sierra Club and other activists have signed on for the BlueGreen Alliance's "The Job's Not Done Tour," aimed at urging Senate action on critical legislation that will create and save millions of jobs. The three-week, 17-state, 30-city bus tour, left Los Angeles this week.
Aug 12, 2010
A powerful new report by the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, "Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence," gives voice to workers who testified about health and safety violations, immigrant worker exploitation, wage theft, employer intimidation, union suppression and other issues at the first National Asian Pacific American Workers' Rights Hearing. APALA, the AFL-CIO and more than 20 national and local organizations held the hearing to provide a national platform for Asian Americans and Pacific Islander workers to speak about challenges they face in the workplace.
Aug 12, 2010
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences awarded a five-year grant to CWA's Occupational Safety and Health Department and the United Steelworkers' Tony Mazzocchi Center for health, safety, and environment education. Together, CWA and the Steelworkers will develop worker-to-worker training on a variety of safety and health issues on the job. CWA's share of the grant, which runs through July 2015, is $2.5 million.
