Collective Bargaining Rights and Organizing

May 3, 2012

CWA: American Airlines Tries an End Run Around the Law

Washington, D.C. -- Following is a statement by Larry Cohen, president of the Communications Workers of America, on the continued effort by American Airlines to stop workers� from having a fair vote on union representation: �Just when working people thought they�d seen it all, American Airlines makes an even more outrageous play. The latest outrage is a lawsuit the company filed May 2, in which American Airlines seeks to rewrite aviation legislation and substitute its own agenda for that of Congress, so it can stop nearly 10,000 passenger service agents from having a union voice.

May 3, 2012

American Airlines Tries an End Run Around the Law

CWA President Larry Cohen issued this statement on the continued effort by American Airlines to stop workers' from having a fair vote on union representation.

May 3, 2012

At Shareholders’ Meeting, AT&T Gets the CWA Message

At the AT&T annual meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, shareholders heard a loud and clear message from CWA leaders and members: AT&T should be helping to "lead our economic recovery by continuing to provide good, middle class jobs. We are the network. We deserve a fair contract."

May 3, 2012

Standing Together for Global Workers’ Rights

CWA President Larry Cohen opened a D.C. session of the International Labor Rights Forum.

Apr 26, 2012

AT&T District 9 Members Ask: Where’s the Fairness?

CWA AT&T members in California and Nevada have a simple question for management: "Where's the Fairness?" As bargaining for a new contract covering 18,000 workers at AT&T West continues, CWAers are taking that message everywhere.

Apr 26, 2012

Passenger Service Election at American Airlines is On!

The National Mediation Board has set the elections date for the CWA representation vote among nearly 10,000 American Airlines passenger service employees.

Apr 26, 2012

Cohen: ‘The status quo is not stable’

CWA President Larry Cohen, renewing his call for international solidarity, used a trip to Germany this week to underscore how the erosion of American workers' rights should serve as a wake-up call for the global labor movement.

Apr 26, 2012

Senate Rejects U.S. Chamber-Backed Attack on NLRB Rule Change

The U.S. Senate upheld the very modest changes made by the National Labor Relations Board last year to ensure that workers have fair and timely elections.

Apr 20, 2012

Workers Rally to Protect T-Mobile Call Center Jobs

T-Mobile USA workers on Monday sent a loud, clear message to their CEO Philipp Humm: Keep good call center jobs in America and bring back the thousands you've shipped overseas.

Apr 20, 2012

Agents Fight Back, Union Election to be Scheduled

Passenger service agents at American Airlines were hit with a devastating reorganization plan yesterday that will affect nearly 10,000 agents. Agents face layoffs, outsourcing, the loss of wages and benefits, being forced to work from home for no benefits, and likely even more cuts in the future as they are the only major workgroup at the airline without union representation.

Apr 12, 2012

GE Workers in Iowa Vote to Join CWA

General Electric workers at an Iowa switchgear plant voted Wednesday on IUE-CWA representation. But the results are still unknown, as the ballots have been impounded due to GE's attempt to pad the bargaining unit.

Apr 12, 2012

Cohen: Build a Framework like Brazil

Faced with a nationwide attack on workers' rights and their unions, American workers can learn a lesson from the Brazilians, CWA President Larry Cohen said Wednesday.

Apr 5, 2012

99 Percent Spring Training: Challenge to Corporate Power is On!

Next week will be a time of unprecedented activity around the country, as union members, environmentalists, religious, civil rights, community and immigrant activists, Occupiers and many more join a nationwide 99 Percent Spring training on how to gain economic justice.

Apr 5, 2012

Community Rallies Behind GE Workers in Iowa

For more than a half-century, the General Electric switchgear plant has been a fixture of West Burlington, Iowa. Now the community is rallying behind GE workers who are organizing for a union voice and to keep those jobs in West Burlington.

Mar 28, 2012

German Political Leaders, Scholars Call for End to Union-Busting by Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile

In an open letter published today in the New York Times, 11 leading German legal scholars and politicians called on Deutsche Telekom and other German companies to ensure that workers at German subsidiaries in the U.S., particularly T-Mobile USA, are able to �exercise their unrestricted right to opt for organized representation in the company without fear. They must not be influenced, pressured, or intimidated by employers if they exercise their basic right for freedom of association. The human right of freedom of speech notably entails this right as well.�

Mar 15, 2012