Press Releases

Reps. Andy Levin (D-Mich.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Penn.) sent a letter on Monday signed by 168 Members of Congress calling for funding to enable the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to hold union elections electronically in the next coronavirus stimulus bill.

CWA and other groups sent a letter today calling on Congress to ensure that T-Mobile does not receive COVID-19 recovery funding to meet the merger specific build-out commitments it agreed to when it sought approval of the T-Mobile/Sprint merger from the FCC, Department of Justice, state attorneys general, and state public utilities commissions.

While the conditions that the California Public Utilities Commission has imposed, including a commitment that the new T-Mobile hire at least 1,000 new employees at a planned customer experience center in Fresno county, are a step in the right direction, we are still very concerned about the job loss and wage reductions that are likely to result from the T-Mobile/Sprint merger.

Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, Carl Kennebrew, International President of the Industrial Division of the Communications Workers of America (IUE-CWA), sent an open letter to President Donald Trump urging him to use his authority under the Defense Production Act to instruct General Electric (GE) to increase manufacturing of much-needed ventilators by setting-up production in its underutilized facilities.

We call on Frontier and its creditors to work quickly to put Frontier on a strong financial footing and prioritize the long-term gains that will come from investment in Frontier’s network over extracting cash from the company for short-term profit. CWA members expect to have input in the direction of the company as the bankruptcy process goes forward.