CWA

  • Book Review: Embedded with Organized Labor

    One nagging factor in labor's crisis has been its internal culture of silence. Difficult issues are often sidestepped, finessed, or ignored all together. Steve Early says he learned in his early days the first rule of business unionism: “Thou shall not criticize another union.” Thirty years later, he's still banging on this rule with a prose sledgehammer—and producing some of the most insightful commentary around about the labor movement.

  • Communications Workers Crash Wall St. To Protest AT&T's CEO
    Mischa Gaus
    Sep 17 2009 - 3:16pm

    CWA Local 1298, which represents AT&T telecommunications workers in Connecticut, protested CEO Randall Stephenson as he made a presentation at a Goldman Sachs event on Wall Street Thursday. More than 4,000 CWA members in Connecticut have been without a contract since April.

  • T-shirts Too Much for AT&T; Company Suspends Hundreds
    Mischa Gaus
    Sep 9 2009 - 4:07pm

    When AT&T demanded Communications Workers (CWA) members in Connecticut take off T-shirts announcing they were the company’s “prisoners,” they took a day’s suspension rather than back down. About 200 members were suspended Tuesday.

  • Delta Flight Attendants Try for Union Again
    Linda Sorenson
    Aug 17 2009 - 3:36pm

    Cabin crews at Delta, the largest airline in the world since its merger last year with Northwest, are preparing for their third union election in eight years. The result promises to shape the standards of work for flight attendants, and union supporters are banking on a new political appointee to help them get a fairer shake in this election.

  • Communications Workers Resist Verizon’s Bid to Abandon Rural U.S.
    Mischa Gaus
    Jul 17 2009 - 3:28pm
  • Labor Rallies for Health Care Reform, but Keeps it Vague
    Jane Slaughter
    Jul 15 2009 - 1:56pm

    It’s no secret that the union movement is divided on health care reform. Resolutions favoring “Medicare for All,” a single-payer system, have been passed by 558 unions, central labor councils, state federations, and other union organizations. Yet in practice leaders of many of those same unions have acted as if actual single-payer legislation (Representative John Conyer’s HR 676 and Senator Bernie Sanders’ S703) didn’t exist.

  • Despite Layoffs, Bailed-Out Banks Hire Contractors on Visas

    Author(s):
    Mischa Gaus

    Excerpt:
    Bailed-out banks are driving down tech workers’ wages and stoking anti-immigrant hostilities by replacing entire departments of local techies with foreign-born workers on visas—all while laying off tens of thousands of workers. . . .

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  • Verizon Decides Not to Take On Unions

    Author(s):
    Mischa Gaus

    Excerpt:
    Relief swept through Verizon garages and offices in the Northeast after unions at the telecommunications giant announced a settlement August 10 that buttressed health care for most workers and delivered healthy wage gains. The three-year offer, which would cover 65,000 workers from Maine to Virginia, came after two strike threats in early August and weeks of worksite rallies. . . .

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  • Verizon Workers Prepare for Contract Fight: At Stake, Health Care, Job Security, Wages, Internet Access

    Author(s):
    Pam Galpern

    Excerpt:
    Thorny issues are coming to a head in the six-month countdown to the contract expiration at Verizon, the nation’s second-largest telecommunications firm. The contract covering 55,000 Communication Workers (CWA) and more than 10,000 Electrical Workers (IBEW) expires August 2. . . .

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  • Call Center Workers Win in Test of Card Check Ruling

    Author(s):
    Mischa Gaus

    Excerpt:
    In New Hampshire's biggest private sector organizing win in four decades, 588 AT&T call center workers who handle passport processing questions joined Communications Workers (CWA) Local 1298 in early January...

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