Press Releases

Members of the Industrial Division of the Communications Workers of America (IUE-CWA) held protests -- standing six feet apart -- at General Electric (GE) facilities in New York, Massachusetts, Texas, and Virgina, demanding that GE put its highly-skilled workforce to work manufacturing life-saving ventilators for COVID-19 patients and implement enhanced safety measures at its facilities to protect workers. The IUE-CWA members held signs saying “GE: We Can Make Ventilators” and “GE Keep Us Safe.”

As call centers across the country provide support to consumers navigating the coronavirus pandemic and corporations rely increasingly on remote assistance with many storefronts closed down, call center workers are being forced to make difficult choices about whether to follow their employers’ demands to work in close proximity to others, or heed recommendations by the WHO and CDC to shelter in place and social distance to prevent community spread.

After the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued guidance mandating that call centers contracting with CMS force employees to work in-person, rather than telework, 45 members of Congress sent a letter to CMS Administrator Seema Verma demanding she reverse the policy and protect Maximus call center workers.

Maximus workers are calling on CEO Bruce Caswell to meet with members of their organizing committee immediately.

T-Mobile is trying to do an end run around the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) approval process, declaring victory on their website for the proposed T-Mobile/Sprint merger, before the Commission completes its process.