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How to Organize
CWA Organizing Locals: Building Power for Our Members
Brochure. Essential guide for local union officers on how to develop an effective organizing program. Describes specific steps that locals should take to become CWA "organizing" locals. These are locals that join the CWA Organizing Network by making the commitment to organize at least 100 workers a year.
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The Way to Build Our Union: The CWA Organizing Model
This one-page chart compares the advantages of organizing workers through CWA's organizing model instead of the traditional "top-to-bottom" approach.
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Building Our Union: Organizing Basics
40-page booklet. A "how-to" manual for local union organizers. Describes how locals can greatly improve their changes of leading a successful campaign by strictly following the seteps in CWA's four stages of organizing - Contact, Committee, Campaign, and Recognition.
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CWA's Guide to Union Organizing: The 4 Stages of Organizing
Brochure. Also known as "Organizing Basics, Jr.," this brochure offers a brief but concise explanation of the 4 stages of organizing covered in the "Building Our Union: Organizing Basics" brochure (listed above). Available in Spanish.
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Organizing Guides and Tools
CWA Petition
Petition. Petition for workers to sign to publicly show their support in their workplace for CWA.
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8 Points About CWA You Should Know Before You Sign the Petition
Handout. Describes the 8 important things workers should know before signing a petition.
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I'll Be There
Card. Pledge card workers sign to say they will be a contact in their work are and provide co-workers with information about CWA.
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CWA Member Benefit Card
Wallet-sized card. Describes discounted services and benefits that come with CWA union membership. Includes Union Plus beneifts, CWA/NETT training, and Cingular Wireless plans. Useful for internal organizing, and for organizing in "Right-to-Work" states.
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Organizing "Contact" Charts
Poster. Charts for local union organizers to use to keep track of contacts in the workplace. Helps identify areas of support and where work needs to be done.
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Organizing Videos
CWA Organizing Video
5 segments cover House Calling, Making Assessments, Organizing Victory at Mercy Hospital, and anti-union videos from employer campaigns at General Electric and American Airlines. Approximately 50 minutes. Available in CD and VHS.
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We Can't Wait
Designed to be shown to Verizon locals. Explains why it is critical for our CWA members at Verizon Communications to talk to Verizon Wireless workers about the importance of forming a union. Approximately 8 minutes. Available in CD & VHS.
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Leaflets, Brochures, and Booklets
Information About CWA

CWA. Union for the Information Age
Handout. General information about CWA for unorganized workers. Available in Spanish.

Revised: 01/2006

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Welcome to CWA: Working People Organizing for Justice
24-page booklet. Pocket-sized "new member" guide describes CWA programs and services.
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The CWA Triangle: Organizing. Representation. Community/Political Action.
12 page brochure. Describes the importance for locals to maintain CWA's three major program activities; Organizing, Representation, and Community/Political Action represented by the CWA Triangle. If any of these programs is weak or nonexistent, it is difficult for CWA locals to be strong and effective. Available in Spanish.

For use by Inside Organizing Committee members. Not for general distribution.

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CWA Triangle Posters
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We Work Hard for Our Money
Brochure. Describes CWA union dues: how they are set, and how each member's dues dollar is broken down by program.
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We've Joined CWA Because We Needed a Voice in Our Workplace
Being Revised
Brochure. Describes CWA as leading voice in the U.S. for professional and technical workers in the information industry.
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Responding to Employers
Our Boss Said We Didn't Need a Union: What Will Yours Say?
Brochure. Describes what the employer may say and do during an organizing campaign. Available in Spanish.
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How Many Harvard Lawyers Does It Take to Stop a Union Campaign?
Pocket-sized brochure. Explains what employees can expect to hear from management when they decide to organize.
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What are 6 Things Bosses Always Say When You Try to Form or Join a Union?
Pocket-sized brochure. Offers a sensible response to management's anti-union rhetoric.
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Why Won't They Talk About the Real Issues?
Pocket-sized brochure. Describes how management avoids addressing workers' real concerns by creating an atmosphere of fear or attacking unions.
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The Law
Pocket-size brochure. Outlines workers' rights to organize under the National Labor Relations Act. Available in Spanish.
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Company and Industry Specific
3,000 of Us Have a Real Voice at Verizon Information Services: Isn't It Your Turn?
Brochure. CWA members at Verizon Information Services describe how CWA has made a difference in their jobs.
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To Our Co-Workers at Verizon Wireless
Brochure. Workers at the only CWA-represented VZW unit urge their VZW co-workers to join CWA.
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Our Voice in Public Broadcasting
Brochure.
CWA, NABET, and TNG members are making their jobs better by having a voice in public broadcasting.
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Being Revised CWA Public and Healthcare Workers
Brochure. Describes how public workers and healthcare employees are improving their lives with CWA representation.
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Printing Employees are Joining Together to Make a Difference
Being Revised
Brochure. This brochure describes the advantages of union representation enjoyed by printers and mailers at newspapers and printing shops. CWA's printing sector represents 25,000 members in the industry.
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One Voice. Our Union Makes Us Strong.
Brochure. CWA, NABET, and TNG members describe how union representation has made their jobs better in the Spanish-language television industry. With quotes and headshots. Bilingual.
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Customer Service Professionals: We're Making a Difference
Brochure. Describes how CWA is the union for customer service professionals and how it addresses and understands CSRs' issues.
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Customer Service Professionals at Their Best
Handout. This handout (8.5" x 11") describes how CWA customer service professionals are negotiating with management to establish "best practices" for customer service occupations. Poster size (11" x 17") available.
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We're IUE-CWA
Brochure. Members at IUE-CWA describe how CWA is the union for workers in the manufacturing sector of the economy.
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Working@GE
Brochure. Sign-up membership form for "WAGE" (Working@GE) explains how IUE-CWA's WAGE committees can improve the jobs of unorganized GE workers.
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Cable Workers are Uniting
Brochure. Describes how CWA members in cable TV arejoining together to improve their jobs.
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Talk to Two: Verizon Workers Talk to Verizon Wireless Workers
Booklet. Explains why and how CWA members in telecommunications should talk to their co-workers at Verizon Wireless about getting union representation.
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Siemens Workers
Brochure. This newsletter-style brochure describes how IUE-CWA-represented workers at Siemens, which employs 70,000 employees in the U.S., are improving their wages and working conditions through union representation.
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Organizing Newsletters
View latest issue Wireless Worker
Published periodically.
View latest issue Cable Workers Unite
Published periodically.
View latest issue The Agent
Published periodically for union activists at the American Airlines.
View latest issue Think Twice
Published periodically for union activists at the Alliance@IBM.
View latest issue WAGE - Working at GE
Published periodically.
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