Volume 74, Issue #4 | Winter 2014

Winter 2014

In 2015: It's Our Turn -- Bargaining, Jobs and Fairness

Today, the top 1 percent is booming. Their lives, their families, their standard of living couldn't be better. They have more than recovered from the Great Recession that started in 2008. Share prices have hit record highs since crashing six years ago, yet wages and the standard of living for the 99% are stagnant.

The American Public Supports Fairness

Raising wages and improving the standard of living for working families is a winning political issue.

2015 Bargaining: It's Our Turn

In 2015, CWA bargaining teams will be negotiating 180 contracts covering more than 200,000 CWA members across our industries and sectors.

No Fast Track, NO TPP: A Fight We Can Win

CWA activists and partners are gearing up for the fight of our lives. In the next few weeks, the new Congress will take up the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. We're standing up and fighting back.

3 Big Forces Are PUshing Down Wages and Destroying Good Jobs

1. Collective bargaining coverage lower than ever. 2. Corporations make more money and exert more control over our democracy. 3. Bad trade deals reward investors and push wages down.

Fighting for Workplace Scheduling Rights Legislation

Two champions of working families, Reps. George Miller (D-Calif.) and Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), introduced a bill to help working families better balance their work lives and their family responsibilities. The "Schedules that Work" Act establishes federal guidelines to make sure that employers provide fair, flexible and reliable schedules for workers.

Fighting Back Against the Attack on the NLRB

Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), in line to head the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee's already on record with his plan to cripple the National Labor Relations Act.