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Statement by Linda Guyer, president of Alliance@IBM, on the firing of more than 1,200 workers in IBM
Press Release
IBM's announcement this week that it will fire more than 1,200 employees in its microelectronics division is bad news, not only for longtime workers who are losing their jobs, but for IBM which will need their skills for the planned expansion of its chipmaking facilities and the turnaround of the in
CWA's Cohen Elected to Head UNI World Telecom Committee
Press Release
Washington, D.C. – Larry Cohen, executive vice president of the Communications Workers of America, was unanimously elected president of the World Telecom Committee of Union Network International.
Arbitrator Restores AT&T Jobs to CWA
News
November 1, 2001
CWA has won back 16 positions at AT&T through an expedited arbitration process that union leaders expect to yield more union jobs that have been misclassified as “management.” The arbitration procedure resulted from settlement of a CWA lawsuit last April.
Stepping Up to the Plate Against New Era
News
November 1, 2001
As the top teams in baseball headed into the World Series, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney and CWA President Morton Bahr joined Local 14177 members in appealing to Major League players for help to end the union’s strike against New Era Cap Co.
Historic GTE Pact Renegotiated with Verizon
News
November 1, 2001
CWA has renegotiated the historic national agreement reached with GTE in 1998, winning major retirement security gains and other improvements in a tentative pact covering 24,000 employees at the former GTE units of Verizon.