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Stop the Tax on Health Care! Join the Fight Now!
The bill produced so far by the Senate Finance Committee is a disaster for working families and retirees.
Here's the worst of it: a 40 percent tax on employer health plans that cost $8,000 or more for individual plans and $21,000 or more for family coverage. This bad idea will hit active and retired CWAers hard.
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10/01/09 |
Two CWAers Elected Co-Presidents of Pride at Work
Two CWAers are the new co-presidents of the national Pride at Work organization, an AFL-CIO group that fights for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
The new co-presidents are Stan Kiino, a representative for AFA-CWA's United Airlines Council 11 in San Francisco and a graduate of CWA's Minority Leadership Institute, and Donna Cartwright, a Baltimore-based writer who was a member of The Newspaper Guild-CWA until her retirement from the New York Times. Cartwright is among the first transgender officers of a national LGBT organization.
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10/01/09 |
CWA: Telecom Policy Should Promote Open Internet, Investment
CWA reaffirmed the need for U.S. telecom policy to combine the goals of ensuring an open Internet with encouraging investment in a 21st century broadband system, in response to a new initiative announced by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. |
10/01/09 |
Vermont AT&T Mobility Retail Workers Join CWA
The more than 300 workers at AT&T Mobility who have chosen a CWA voice just in the four weeks are more proof that workers want the Employee Free Choice Act. |
10/01/09 |
Health Care: $100 a Month in Canada vs. $1,100 a Month in the U.S.
It's a tale of two CWA members, a father of two working for ABC in the United States, a father of three working for the CBC in Canada.
Chip Catherine, a member of NABET-CWA Local 52031, pays $1,100 a month for health insurance that only covers him. Colin Preston, a TNG Canada member, pays a monthly tax of $108 to cover his entire family. It's deducted from his check just like Social Security is here. He never worries about co-pays or deductibles and never fears losing his coverage because of a pre-existing condition. |
10/01/09 |
CWA Executive Board Sets Action Plan on Health Care, Elects D7 VP
CWA's Executive Board this week outlined a CWA action plan to fight efforts in Congress to tax employer health care plans and to win the real health care reform union members need, including an employer mandate. |
09/24/09 |
Labor's Allies Travel to DC to Fight for Employee Free Choice
More than 300 activists from around the country, representing small business, veterans, farmers, civil rights and faith leaders and other allies went to Capitol Hill to tell their members of Congress that the Employee Free Choice Act is critical to rebuilding America's economy. |
09/17/09 |
Delegates Pledge to take Comcast Workers' Fight Back to their Communities
Comcast workers' fight for fair contracts and a union voice was taken on by 2,500 AFL-CIO convention delegates who signed a CWA petition to educate elected officials, community leaders and activists in their hometowns about Comcast's attack on workers' rights. |
09/17/09 |
Obama Vows Support for Labor's Goals, Delegates Endorse Labor Unity
President Barack Obama promised AFL-CIO convention delegates that he was dedicated to rebuilding America's middle class by giving workers and unions the tools to rebuild a strong labor movement. |
09/17/09 |
Obama College Rally for Health Reform Draws CWAers, Thousands of Students
Members of CWA locals in Maryland and Washington, D.C., were among thousands of people who turned out for President Obama's health care rally at the University of Maryland in College Park. |
09/17/09 |
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