Skip to main content

News

Search News

Topics
Date Published Between

For the Media

For media inquiries, call CWA Communications at 202-434-1168 or email comms@cwa-union.org. To read about CWA Members, Leadership or Industries, visit our About page.

Movement Building

Get Ready to Rally for Immigration Reform

3a_Fast4Families_Mishawaka_IND

CWA members in Mishawaka, Ind., with activists from Jobs with Justice, SEIU, the Northern Indiana Coalition for Immigration Reform and other groups, joined the Fast For Families call for immigration reform.

3b_Fast4Families_DC_Rally

The "Fast for Families Across America" Bus Tour is getting close to the end of its run.

On Wednesday, April 9, immigration reform advocates will return to where it all began with a rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

The day before, Tuesday, April 8, President Larry Cohen, CWA activists and other activists, including AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Tefere Gebre, will rally outside the Herndon, Va., office of Rep. Frank Wolf, calling on him and Congress to pass immigration reform this year.

For more than a month, the "Fast for Families" activists have been on a nationwide road trip, talking with ordinary Americans about our broken immigration system, encouraging communities to fast and pray, and pushing members of Congress to act on comprehensive immigration reform. At every stop, supporters have signed thousands of petitions that activists will deliver to the House leadership at the end of the April 9 rally.

The Senate passed comprehensive immigration reform last June, but the Republican-controlled House of Representatives has refused to take up the issue. House Democrats are looking to push forward a discharge petition that would enable H.R. 15, the bipartisan Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, to be considered on the House floor.

******

Cesar Chavez Holiday

3c_San_Antonio_Chavez_March

CWAers join the march and rally in San Antonio, Texas, to celebrate the life and legacy of Cesar Chavez.

3d_Chavez_March_San_Antonio

CWAers, union activists and supporters joined the annual Cesar E. Chavez March for Unity in San Antonio, Texas, on March 29. Activists celebrated Chavez's life and legacy and rallied for comprehensive immigration reform.

Chavez was a farm worker, a civil rights activist and co-founder of the United Farmworkers Union. His birthday, March 31, is a state holiday in Texas, California and Colorado.

"Cesar Chavez" is a new film now in theatres on the courageous life of the farmworker organizer who believed that his job as an organizer "was to help ordinary people do extraordinary things."

******

3e_MO_Lobby_Day

Missouri CWA members lobby this week at the State Capitol in Jefferson City, fighting back against anti-worker legislation.

******

3f_Sara_Steffens_Movement_Building

Sara Steffens, TNG-CWA secretary-treasurer, TNG-CWA members and union and community activists in Oakland rally for a wage increase for minimum wage workers, and paid sick days.

******

Students And Workers Unite!

3g_CWA_NJ

Students from Rowan University's Glassboro Student Union and Progressive Student Alliance supported members of CWA Local 1038 during contract negotiations this month.

The students sent 183 emails to Sodexo management, collected signatures from their fellow students for a petition demanding a fair contract, and sat with workers during negotiations.