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With almost every state in the nation operating in the red due to President Bush’s $100 billion tax cut for corporations and a shrinking tax base caused by high unemployment, state and local elections this year take on a special importance.

For working families, the stakes in this year’s mid-term Congressional elections have never been greater. And the contrast between candidates has never been more pronounced.

Working families fed up with corporate scandals, expensive government bailouts and an economy teetering on recession have the opportunity on Nov. 5 to regain control of the House of Representatives.

CWA’s Second President Led CWA through ‘Golden Age Record Bell System Bargaining Achievements

CWA’s President Emeritus Glenn E. Watts, who headed the union from 1974 until his retirement in 1985, died Aug. 30, at a Washington, D.C.

Frustrated by months of stalled negotiations, unilateral changes in job conditions by management and even the firing of several union activists, CWA members at Verizon Information Services voted by a 9 to 1 margin to authorize a strike, subject to approval of the Executive Board and setting of a str