Press Releases

Members of the Communications Workers of America at Verizon Communications ratified a four-year agreement covering about 35,000 CWA represented workers from Virginia to New England. Members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers also voted to ratify a four-year agreement. IBEW represents about 10,000 Verizon workers.

The Communications Workers of America is pleased to see that AT&T is taking steps to further strengthen its defined benefit pension fund. Retirement security is a critical issue for working families, and AT&T?s action means a strong future for the fund.

The presidential campaigns continue to duel over Mitt Romney?s pledge to gut the funding future of public broadcasting. Today, Mitt Romney responded to the Obama campaign?s new ?Big Bird? ad by once again missing the point regarding public broadcasting?s economic benefits to the nation. As CWA pointed out last week, federal investment in public broadcasting is the epitome of a successful public/private partnership ? the federal investment in public broadcasting acts as seed money for local stations, which leverage every $1 of federal investment to raise over $6. All together, federal funding for public broadcasting contributes more than $1 billion to the national economy, for less than $1.40 per American.

Statement by the Communications Workers of America on today?s ruling by the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that dismissed American Airlines? claims in its attempt to block workers? democratic rights: