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CWA: Rights and Liberties of the U.S. Constitution Must Apply to All
The Communications Workers of America stands with the President and those who support equality and human rights. We oppose all discrimination and recognize the direct linkage between civil and workers' rights, and the attempts to divide Americans based on these issues.
CWA: Secret Trans-Pacific Trade Negotiations Will Harm Jobs, Communities, Environment
The Trans-Pacific free trade agreement is being negotiated in secret for good reason: for workers, jobs, communities and the environment, it promises only bad news, the Communications Workers of America said.
Grammy Award Winning Musician, Actor, Writer Steve Earle Boosts Workers' Fight at Verizon
Thousands of Verizon employees heard a message from Steve Earle last week calling out Verizon Communications for hitting up workers for another $20,000 a year in compensation cuts while posting another record earnings quarter this year. As part of Shareholder Spring, nearly 1,000 workers, students and progressive activists demonstrated inside and outside Verizon's annual meeting on May 3 in Huntsville, Ala., demanding that the company stop its assault on customers, employees and American taxpayers.
RNC Attacks President Obama on Unemployment? from Overseas Call Center
CWA Chief of Staff Ron Collins: ?Hard to imagine anything more hypocritical than the RNC making calls about U.S. unemployment from a Verizon foreign call center.?
CWA: American Airlines Tries an End Run Around the Law
Washington, D.C. -- Following is a statement by Larry Cohen, president of the Communications Workers of America, on the continued effort by American Airlines to stop workers? from having a fair vote on union representation:
?Just when working people thought they?d seen it all, American Airlines makes an even more outrageous play. The latest outrage is a lawsuit the company filed May 2, in which American Airlines seeks to rewrite aviation legislation and substitute its own agenda for that of Congress, so it can stop nearly 10,000 passenger service agents from having a union voice.