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Oct 6, 2011

Nevada Deputy Sheriffs Join CWA

Twenty-eight members of the White Pine County (Nevada) Deputy Sheriffs Association joined with CWA last week. They will be represented by the Nevada Association of Public Safety Officers/CWA Local 9110.

Oct 6, 2011

House GOP Budget Threatens Workers’ Safety, Union Rights

Federal programs protecting workers' safety and health on the job, as well as their right to organize, are targeted for cuts or elimination altogether in a 2012 budget proposal from House Republicans.

Oct 6, 2011

Click Here: A Workers’ Roundup of the Web’s Best

How many bridges in your state are structurally deficient? You might be shocked to find out that the numbers are in the thousands.

Oct 4, 2011

Communications Workers of America Endorses Occupy Wall Street Movement

Building a movement! CWA endorses Occupy Wall Street movement, activists join CWAers at Verizon Wireless leafleting.

Oct 4, 2011

Customer Service Professionals Month Recognizes Workers in a Tough Profession

October is Customer Service Professionals month and the start of a major campaign to focus attention on the issues facing customer service and call center workers.

Oct 4, 2011

CenturyLink of Missouri Contract Update

Happy to report that CenturyLink of Missouri contract was ratified overwhelmingly on Friday.

Oct 4, 2011

Colombia Free Trade Agreement is a Flawed Plan, Will Not Improve Workers� Lives in Colombia

The Colombia Free Trade Agreement is flawed and should not be approved by Congress.

Oct 3, 2011

“iWon’t”: Unions and Allies Target New iPhone and Tax Loopholes

The Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, joined by allies including MoveOn.org, the AFL-CIO, US Action, Jobs with Justice, and the National People�s Alliance announced the next stage in the fight for middle-class jobs at Verizon and Verizon Wireless.

The groups are launching the nationwide iWont Campaign, asking Americans to delay upgrading to the new iPhone on Verizon Wireless until the company agrees to a fair contract with its workers. The campaign, which includes online outreach by MoveOn.org and other groups, advertising, grassroots outreach and leafleting at hundreds of Verizon Wireless stores, is timed around the launch of Apple�s new iPhone.

Oct 3, 2011

FTR Investor Alert

Please click here for the September 2011 newsletter.

Oct 1, 2011

WORKING Together: It’s All About Movement Building

It�s all about movement building

It will take all of us, union members, progressive activists, the civil rights community, environmentalists, people of faith, students and others to restore the rights and standard of living of working families.

Oct 1, 2011

Top 10 Reasons to Take Action

10) To show our children we really can change the world, or at least our part of it.

9) To remind corporations and elected officials that ordinary people do make a difference.

Oct 1, 2011

�The Union is Us�

From Union Bench Warmer to Quarterback

Kenny Distance used to be a �sit-on-the-sidelines� kind of union member. �I let the shop steward and other members do the work,� Distance says. �All I would care about is opening the finished contract to the page about the money. That was good enough for me.�

Oct 1, 2011

�It�s Cool to Be in a Union�

Young Verizon Worker Embraces Her New Union

Timothy Staples � her first name comes from a flowering grass � never had a union at work until she got a job last February at a Verizon call center in Salisbury, Md.

Oct 1, 2011

�Why Are You Supporting the Competition, Mom?�

Standing with Verizon/Verizon Wireless Workers an Education for Kids and Grown-Ups

Kathy Hayes works for AT&T Mobility in Champaign, Ill., and Stan Wylie works for CenturyLink in Seattle, but it would be easy to mistake them lately for Verizon/Verizon Wireless workers.

Oct 1, 2011

�I�m Fighting Harder Than Ever�

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and every other politician who spent 2011 beating up on public workers and slashing the services they provide should be forced to talk directly to people like Ellen Vidal.

A teacher turned social worker, Local 1088�s Vidal assists mentally and physically disabled adults, then heads home to care for two adopted children who�ve had severe medical issues of their own. So has Vidal, who endured numerous surgeries after a bad root canal. For the better part of two years, she hung a bag of IV antibiotics from her blinds at work so she could infuse herself every four hours.

Oct 1, 2011

�I Can�t Just Sit Back and Watch�

CWA Volunteers Fight Tirelessly to Overturn Ohio�s Anti-Bargaining Law It�s because of CWAers like Diane Bailey and Barb Allen that petitions to repeal an anti-bargaining rights law in Ohio had to be hauled to the secretary of state�s office in a semi-truck.

Oct 1, 2011

�I�m Mad and I�m Not Going to Take It Anymore�

Jeanette Spoor could be living a life of leisure in retirement. Instead she�s at rallies, on picket lines, meeting with allies to build coalitions of activists and, most recently, helping lead protests against a New York congresswoman who wants to kill Medicare.

�I just don�t think I could go to sleep at night without giving it my best shot,� says Spoor, the president of CWA Local 1103�s Retired Members� Chapter. �I have stamina and energy and I�m going to fight for what I believe in.�

Oct 1, 2011

�I Can�t Think About Pain. I Think About Helping People�

Trading lazy summer days for the chance to make a difference, CWA activists turned up the heat on lawmakers at �August Accountability� events from coast to coast.

Together with allies, they packed town hall meetings, protested outside politicians� district offices, leafleted at airports, wrote letters and made phone calls throughout August and early September. And now they�re ready for more.

Oct 1, 2011

New Laws Attack Democracy�s Most Fundamental Right

A deluge of new laws are forcing Americans to fight for the most basic right of all in a democracy: the right to vote. In Ohio, Florida, Wisconsin and other states where GOP governors and state legislatures spent the first part of 2011 attacking workers� rights, voter suppression was next on the agenda. Here�s what happening in three states and what CWA members and allies are doing about it.

Oct 1, 2011

�This Is Nothing More Than an Effort to Suppress the Vote�

Not only does Wisconsin now require all voters to show state-issued photo ID, Gov. Scott Walker�s administration has even tried to make it harder for people to get the identification they need.

The Republican governor ordered 10 DMV offices around the state closed this summer, but public outrage forced him to reverse the decision. But CWA members say there are still many battles to fight.