News

The deadline for all CWA-represented Bell Atlantic/NYNEX employees to participate in the SPECIAL FMLA REVIEW PROCESS has been extended to Feb. 15, 1999.

Today's information age is bringing diverse groups of professionals to the realization that they are indeed (1) workers (2) who as individuals are often exploited and (3) who can improve their pay and working conditions by banding together. In other words, they need a union.

CWA President Morton Bahr is one of President Clinton's five appointees to the newly created 21st Century Workforce Commission, which will conduct a study of the skill requirements and training needs of the information technology workforce.

Concurrent with the purchase of the Puerto Rico Telephone Company by GTE, the 4,800-member Independent Union of Telephone Workers (UIET) has signed an Alliance agreement with CWA that will establish a partnership in community-based coalition building, organizing and collective bargaining.

Justice is a step closer for hundreds of members suspended by Bell Atlantic for mobilizing against the company's downsizing in 1994 by cutting 5,600 workers.