Toward a Stronger Labor Movement
CWA is playing a key role in the AFL-CIO's ongoing self-examination and debate over strategies to revitalize our movement. Below are articles and proposals put forth by CWA's top leaders as well as locals and activists. To post your ideas on this site, contact Jeff Miller at jmiller@cwa-union.org.
For more information, or to participate in a discussion forum, please visit the AFL-CIO's site on this issue.
- Debating Labor's Future
CWA's Executive Vice President Larry Cohen and other labor leaders discuss the future of the labor movement in this article from The Nation
- Democracy in the Workplace—CWA proposals for the AFL-CIO
CWA Executive Board's 10-point plan
- No Short-Cuts: Mobilization and Politics Must Drive Labor's Revival from the Bottom Up [Acrobat 287K]
CWA Local 1037 President Hetty Rosenstein and District 1 Research Economist Bob Master
- Democracy, Density and Transformation: We Need Them All [Acrobat 69K]
Jeff Crosby, president of IUE-CWA Local 201
- The AFL-CIO: A More Effective and Unified Force [Acrobat 64K]
Proposed by CWA and 8 other international unions
- Labor Debates How to Rebuilt Its House
Steve Early, District 1 Assistant to the Vice President
- Reutherism Redux: What Happens When Poor Workers' Unions Wear The Color Purple [Acrobat 68K]
Steve Early, District 1 Assistant to the Vice President
- Is Labor's Midlife Crisis Leading To A Divorce By SEIU?
Steve Early, District 1 Assistant to the Vice President
- Building a Social Movement Means Organizing, Not Restructuring: NUP and the Organizing Model [Acrobat 45K]
Jeff Lacher, Local 1168
- Letter to Sweeney [Acrobat 12K]
Chris Cutter, Local 1103
- Why the Rev. King Never Gave an "I Have a Nightmare" Speech [Acrobat 27K]
Andy Zipser, editor of the Guild Reporter
- Let’s Depose the One-Eyed King: It's Time We Reclaim Labor's Vision [Acrobat 45K]
Andy Zipser, editor of the Guild Reporter
- Toward a Stronger Labor Movement
CWA News, March/April 2005
