Press Releases

This year, the Communications Workers of America will negotiate contracts covering nearly 400,000 workers at the nation's largest telecommunications employers. This is the largest round of bargaining in any industry this year.

The Newspaper Guild-CWA has named the 1997 winner of its prestigious Heywood Broun award. Ted Wendling, Joan Mazzolini and Dave Davis, reporters for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, were selected for their series of articles exposing flaws in the nation's organ allocation and transplant system.

Following is the statement of Morton Bahr, president of the Communications Workers of America, on the decision by the European Commission to conduct a Phase II, four-month investigation of the proposed mega-merger between MCI Communications and WorldCom Inc.:

The Communications Workers of America is continuing to raise government and public concern about the negative effects of the proposed merger of WorldCom Inc.

WorldCom's proposed acquisition of MCI would give the company near monopoly control over the Internet backbone with the power to set prices and control access by service providers, the Communications Workers of America charged in urging the Federal Communications Commission to block the deal.