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Conference Helps Empower CWA Women
"CWA Women Building for the Future" was the focus of the national women's conference in St. Louis, and more than 150 CWAers joined in activities and discussions designed to empower women as leaders, unionists and political activists. |
09/17/09 |
CWA and UAW Form New Legislative Alliance
CWA and the UAW have set up a new legislative alliance that will work to advance the issues important to the unions' 2 million active and retired workers and all working families: workers' bargaining rights through the Employee Free Choice Act, real health care reform, fair trade, retirement security and more. |
09/17/09 |
AT&T Mobility Workers in Caribbean, Washington State Join CWA
Workers at AT&T Mobility continue to demonstrate that they want union representation and are using majority sign-up to get their union voice. |
09/17/09 |
Cohen to AFL-CIO: Organizing is Key to Playing Offense for America's Workers
More workers with bargaining rights means a bigger, stronger voice for all workers, which is why organizing – even in the toughest of times – is labor's number-one job, CWA President Larry Cohen told delegates to the AFL-CIO convention in Pittsburgh. |
09/17/09 |
Puerto Rico Fight: Stimulus Dollars Paying for Paper's Scab Workers
Puerto Rico newspaper workers who were pushed out of their jobs at El Vocero in July and replaced by non-union employees continue to picket their building and offices of local politicians who are channeling U.S. stimulus fund to the union-busting publisher. |
09/17/09 |
Got CWA-COPE?
Sept. 14 is opening day for CWA's campaign to build participants and contributions to CWA-COPE, our union's political action program.
The message for CWAers: If we're serious about real health care reform, restoring bargaining rights, strengthening our union contracts and building the middle class, we need to be a part of CWA-COPE. |
09/10/09 |
Panel Proves There's Room for Agreement in Health Care Debate
At a forum sponsored by the Bipartisan Policy Center and Better Health Care Together, a coalition that includes CWA, AT&T, and other union and business groups, labor, corporate and political leaders had lots to agree on when it comes to health care reform. |
09/10/09 |
CWA, Partners Launch 'Bridge Years Coalition' on Health Care
CWA, IBEW, Verizon and a diverse group of business, health care and retiree organizations have formed the "Bridge Years Health Coalition," to support efforts for reform of the health care system and to make sure that the concerns of Americans aged 55-64 get addressed in health care reform. |
09/10/09 |
CWAers Pack Hearing to Support Temporary Senator in Massachusetts
CWA members from five Massachusetts locals jammed a hearing at the State House where a legislative committee was debating a bill to appoint a temporary interim Senator to fill the seat of the late Senator Edward Kennedy. Wearing CWA red, members filled an entire section and made it clear that Massachusetts working families need two senators to represent them, especially in these critical times.
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09/10/09 |
CWA in the Fight for Health Care Reform
In a teleconference with more than 200 local union presidents, CWA President Larry Cohen and Executive Vice President Annie Hill laid out the strategy to win real health care reform.
Cohen stressed that "the work we do over the next eight or nine weeks will be decisive as to whether we improve conditions for our members and our families. We can't sit and watch and hope. We have to be fired up and get this done," he said. |
09/10/09 |
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