The CWA News | Volume 73, Issue #1 | Spring 2013

How do we move forward on the issues we care about -- good jobs, retirement security, health care and bargaining rights? By standing together with other activists and being there for each other's fights. Together with faith groups, community organizations, civil rights groups, students and others, CWA is pushing for progressive change to benefit working families. We're building a wide-ranging movement for social and economic justice, and that's how we're fighting back. The only time there has been change in the U.S. is when a movement of the majority rose up and demanded it.

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was established in 1935. It is the enforcement agency for the National Labor Relations Act, the principal labor law regulating private sector employment. The Board has five members nominated by the President, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Currently there is only one confirmed NLRB member, but the Board needs at least three to make decisions.

Without bargaining rights, workers have no way to improve their wages and conditions and meet the power of their employers. And the decline in union membership means that bargaining is even tougher. It's as though every non-union competitor is sitting across the table from our bargaining teams.