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Stimulus Extends TAA Benefits to Service Workers
In a big victory for service workers, the Obama administration's economic recovery plan has extended federal Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) to customer service professionals and high-tech and public sector workers who lose their jobs due to offshoring, imports, and other trade practices.
CWA Creates Distressed Employer SIF
CWA's Executive Board has established a strategic industry fund to identify distressed CWA employers who are most at risk in the ongoing economic crisis.
Making Our Union Stronger in Tough Times: Print Sector Taps Trade Adjustment Dollars to Help Victims
Late last summer, typesetters at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch were summoned to a conference room where they found the paper's big bosses with, as one worker described, "their heads hung low."
Making Our Union Stronger in Tough Times: In Puerto Rico, Workers’ Co-op Picks Up Where Former Dai
Fed up with late and bounced paychecks, members of The Newspaper Guild-CWA began picketing last August at the San Juan Star, an English-language daily that had published in Puerto Rico for 49 years.
Making Our Union Stronger in Tough Times: Socially Responsible Ownership Plan Could Revitalize Newsp
The TNG-CWA local at the Peoria Journal Star (Illinois) is exploring a way for employees and other investors to buy the newspaper from the debt-ridden Gatehouse Media corporation.