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Apr 25, 2013

Daniel Rivera�s Immigration Story

CWA delegates were deeply moved by the story of how CWA Local 7019 member Daniel Rivera and his family marched toward citizenship.

Apr 25, 2013

Serious MOMentum for Paid Sick Days

Did you know that more than 4 in 10 private-sector employees do not have paid sick days? Workers are standing up and fighting back, along with Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), who just introduced a bill that would allow workers to earn seven paid sick days a year.

Apr 25, 2013

Fix the Senate Now Urges Filibuster Reform Revival

Fix the Senate Now, a coalition of more than 70 progressive and labor groups, is renewing its call for Senate rules reform. The continued GOP obstruction of presidential nominees and important legislation makes it clear that real change � not just another unenforceable gentlemen�s agreement � is needed soon.

Apr 25, 2013

CWA Activists picket MetroPCS Shareholder Meeting for Job Security

MetroPCS shareholders on Wednesday approved a deal to merge with T-Mobile USA, clearing the final hurdle to combining the companies.

Apr 25, 2013

Steelworkers President Gerard: ‘We Can Change the Direction of This Country’

United Steel Workers President Leo Gerard commend CWA members and leaders as the �moral fiber� of the fight to save our democracy, to fix the broken Senate and to restore workers� bargaining rights.

Apr 25, 2013

CWA Supports Immigration Bill

CWA and CASA de Maryland members participated in the first U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing for S. 744, a bill outlining comprehensive immigration reform last Friday.

Apr 25, 2013

Save Pittsburgh’s AT&T Call Centers

CWA convention delegates rallied outside two AT&T call centers in Pittsburgh that AT&T is threatening to close.

Apr 24, 2013

Progressive Caucus Co-Chairs: NLRB Essential to Protecting Working Americans

Congressional Progressive Caucus Co-Chairs Reps. Ra�l M. Grijalva (D-AZ) and Keith Ellison (D-MN) released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1120, a bill to shut down the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and stop workers from organizing for higher wages.

Apr 24, 2013

President Cohen: No NLRB, No Voice

Congress essentially told working Americans to drop dead. House Republicans pushed through a dangerous bill that would paralyze the National Labor Relations Board, blocking the only path that workers have to workplace justice.

Apr 22, 2013

Gentle Warrior: A. Philip Randolph (1889 - 1979)

The words and deeds of A. Philip Randolph show us the unyielding strength of his life-long struggle for full human rights for the Blacks and all the disinherited of the nation.

Apr 22, 2013

If Not Now, When?

CWA President Larry Cohen addresses the 74th CWA Convention.

Read his full speech here.

Apr 18, 2013

We did it! ONE members help rekindle Obama�s love for The Global Fund

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President Obama's 2014 budget helps sustain America's leadership role in supporting The Global Fund's lifesaving work on AIDS, TB, and malaria.

Apr 18, 2013

Standing with Boston

CWA is proud of the first responders, medics, and Guild and NABET members who put their own lives on the line to spring into action during the horrific events in Boston on Monday.

Apr 18, 2013

Bargaining Update

Tentative agreement with Verizon Southwest and Flight Attendant "send-off party" in Florida.

Apr 18, 2013

Bipartisan Immigration Bill is a First Step

U.S. Senators known as the �Gang of Eight,� four Democrats and four Republicans who have been working on immigration reform, have released a bill that is a first step toward much needed reform of our broken immigration system.

Apr 18, 2013

Full Out Attack on the NLRB

Last Friday, House Republicans pushed through H.R. 1120, a bill that would essentially shut down the National Labor Relations Board. Piling on a recent Court of Appeals ruling challenging the constitutionality of President Barack Obama�s recess appointments to the NLRB, the legislation seeks to freeze all NLRB activities that requires a quorum of board members. It would also bar the NLRB from enforcing any decisions it has made since Jan. 4, 2012, when Obama made those disputed recess appointments.

Apr 18, 2013

CWA Activists Around the Country

See images of CWAers from around the country.

Apr 18, 2013

West Virginia Supports Getting Corporate Money Out of Politics

CWA was instrumental in the West Virginia state legislature�s passing a resolution calling on Congress to adopt a constitutional amendment that will end the corrosive influence of corporate money in politics.

Apr 18, 2013