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.
Aug 5, 2010
Members of the Newspaper Guild of New York/CWA Local 31003 at Thomson Reuters have some powerful allies in their fight for a fair contract. Local members who have been mobilizing for a fair contract covering 400 workers at Thomson Reuters have won support from members of the New York City Council and Borough Presidents, as well as leaders of the city's union movement.
Jul 30, 2010
Busloads of CWA members were on Capitol Hill for CWA's Lobby Day, holding more than 140 meetings with members of Congress and staff on jobs, bargaining rights for public safety officers and high-speed broadband access for all Americans.
Jul 30, 2010
CWA delegates voted strong support for T-Mobile USA workers who are fighting for bargaining rights, and applauded the actions of ver.di, the union for T-Mobile workers in Germany that is working with CWA to end the double standard at the company.
Jul 30, 2010
Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-Illinois) talked about how important it is that Congress support workers and workers' rights, especially when it comes to mergers, corporate bankruptcies and financial bailouts.
Jul 22, 2010
NABET-CWA technicians at Omaha's KETV Channel 7 are fighting for a fair contract that prevents the Hearst-owned station from unilaterally turning full-time jobs into part-time work.
Jul 15, 2010
The union election held last week among 20,000 telecom workers in Mexico City was another wake-up call that the global economy simply doesn't work when it comes to workers' rights.
Jul 15, 2010
In a huge victory for 2,100 IUE-CWA retirees who worked at Visteon Corp. in Indiana, the U.S. Court of Appeals found that the company illegally terminated retiree health and life insurance benefits.
Jul 15, 2010
Nearly 3,000 fleet and passenger service agents at Piedmont Airlines soon will have the opportunity to vote for CWA representation, following CWA's filing last Friday with the National Mediation Board for a union election.
Jul 9, 2010
Nearly 3,000 fleet and passenger service agents at Piedmont Airlines will have the opportunity to vote for union representation by the Communications Workers of America, as CWA filed today with the National Mediation Board for a union election to represent workers at the regional airline.
Jul 8, 2010
Seven Republican members of Congress have signed a letter to Deutsche Telekom chief executive officer Rene Olbermann calling on the company to "follow the same, fair policies at your U.S. subsidiary as at Deutsche Telekom" with regard to workers' rights to decide for themselves, free from management interference, whether they want to organize and bargain collectively.
Jul 8, 2010
NABET-CWA has been in tough bargaining with PBS, the nation's public broadcasting network, for a new contract covering some 50 technicians, editors and satellite workers, members of Local 52031.
Jul 1, 2010
In rejecting the airline industry's challenge to new, democratic rules governing representation elections for airline and railroad workers, U.S. District Court Judge Paul Friedman said the National Mediation Board was fully within its rights to change the rules, and that the agency demonstrated "that the change is essential."
Jul 1, 2010
Technical workers at St. Mary's Hospital in Reno, Nev., will get a 9.5 percent raise over the next two years under a first contract that the new members of CWA Local 9413 ratified overwhelmingly Tuesday night.
Jun 28, 2010
Washington, DC –Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA) International President Patricia A. Friend issued the following statement today after the United States District Court in the District Of Columbia supported new voting procedures proposed by the National Mediation Board (NMB).
Jun 24, 2010
Leaders representing eight national civil rights, labor, and environmental organizations urged Congress to act quickly to clarify the Federal Communications Commission's authority to protect an Open Internet and apply Universal Service funding to broadband.
