Volume 73, Issue #3 | Fall 2013

For 130 million working Americans, the Trans-Pacific Partnership is, as U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison described so well, the ?largest corporate power grab you never heard of.?

They use every opportunity to talk about their fight for respect, and for a fair contract.

We did it! For the first time in a decade, the National Labor Relations Board has five Senate-confirmed members. The three Democratic members confirmed by the Senate are Mark Pearce, Nancy Schiffer, and Kent Hirozawa. The Senate-confirmed Republicans are Harry Johnson and Phil Miscimarra.

CWA activists are fighting to keep good call center jobs here in the U.S., and one way to help make that happen is through legislation that takes away the rewards that U.S. companies now receive for moving jobs offshore.

The evidence just keeps mounting. The Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement, is a bad deal that could jeopardize U.S. jobs, wages, consumer safety and environmental standards, while pushing back workers? rights in other countries even more.