May 23, 2013
CWA activists, members and supporters were out in force at the Cablevision-Optimum annual meeting today in Bethpage, N.Y., spotlighting the fight for a fair contract for nearly 300 members of CWA Local 1109.
May 23, 2013
TU members in the U.S. and Germany are doing everything they can to support T-Mobile USA workers in their fight for a CWA voice and rights on the job.
May 23, 2013
CWA Local 3010 gained recognition for six AT&T Mobility warehouse workers in Puerto Rico. The recognition was conducted last week under the AT&T card check agreement.
May 23, 2013
Frontier Communications has awarded CWA/NETT Academy the contract to administer the Joint Labor/Management committee for providing training to its members under a new program called “FrontierRising.”
May 9, 2013
Ahead of President Barack Obama’s trip to Mexico, labor leaders called on him to address “Mexico’s dismal labor rights record.”
May 9, 2013
CWA activists in Colorado, Maryland, and New York.
Apr 18, 2013
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 11, 2013
Fifty million people can change the future of our country. And this week, New Jersey CWA activists took the first steps toward building that campaign against corporations and right-wing extremists.
Apr 11, 2013
The National Labor Relations Board has threatened to file two complaints against Cablevision this week.
Apr 4, 2013
Cablevision-Optimum workers in Brooklyn, members of CWA Local 1109, are building a lot a community support throughout New York City in their fight for a fair contract. Now, supporters are calling on the NBA to make sure it doesn’t reward the bad behavior of Cablevision CEO James Dolan by scheduling the 2015 All-Star Game at the Dolan-owned Madison Square Garden.
Mar 28, 2013
CWA Local 3181 and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1577 are both facing some tough bargaining with the Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners. So the two locals have joined forces in a media and community support campaign, calling on the county commissioners to “do the right thing” by bargaining fair contracts that include real wage increases.
Mar 28, 2013
Why is Negotiating a First Contract So Difficult? House Democrats Ask Cablevision Techs for Answers.
Mar 28, 2013
Scores of businesses are attempting to void, ignore and block National Labor Relation Board decisions.
Mar 14, 2013
The Missouri House and Senate this week approved separate bills this week that would severely restrict the way unions can collect and spend dues.
Mar 14, 2013
The leaders of CWA, STRM – the independent Mexican Telephone Workers Union – and the Canadian Communications, Energy and Paperworkers (CEP) met in Mexico City to continue their tri-national work supporting workers’ rights.
Mar 7, 2013
If you’re in New York later this month, you’ll want to catch a screening of “Brothers on the Line.”
Feb 21, 2013
University of Akron workers vote for CWA and CWA organizes New York non-profit.
Feb 21, 2013
CWA President Larry Cohen and local activists rallied in front of the Mexican consulate today as part of a week-long, worldwide protest against the pervasive attack on workers’ rights in Mexico. The group delivered a letter to Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto calling on the government to help end the persecution of workers who want democratic bargaining rights.
