The CWA News | More Wins for Workers

Over the past four years, the Obama administration has moved to protect workers’ rights, pay, health and safety on the job in these areas:

• In 2009, the president appointed Mark Pearce, a CWA attorney, and Craig Becker, an SEIU attorney, to the National Labor Relations Board.

• The president named former AFA-CWA President Linda Puchala to head the National Mediation Board, making it finally possible for union elections in the airline and transportation industries to follow democratic election standards.

• Airport screeners who had been denied bargaining rights under the Bush administration finally got the right to organize and bargain under the Obama administration’s Transportation Security Administration.

• The president signed into the law a bill to provide medical treatment and compensation to 9/11 responders.