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CWA: AT&T/DIRECTV Merger Will Advance Broadband Buildout and Benefit Consumers, Workers
News
September 18, 2014
The proposed AT&T/DIRECTV merger will advance the deployment of high-speed broadband, strengthen competition in the video and broadband markets, and promote collective bargaining and good, career jobs, the Communications Workers of America said in comments filed today with the Federal Communications Commission. CWA urged the Commission to move forward expeditiously to approve the transaction.
UMASS Report: T-Mobile Plays the Corporate Rating Scam
News
September 18, 2014
A new research report by the University of Massachusetts Amherst Labor Center is questioning the validity of popular corporate ratings systems in "The Corporate Rating Sham: The Case of T-Mobile."
IUE-CWA Local 89119 Members Ratify New Five-Year Contract
News
September 18, 2014
In protracted negotiations that saw a final and best offer rejected by members and going to the brink of a strike, CWA Local 89119 members finally received an offer that they ratified this week.
Local 3179 Overwhelmingly Ratify New Contract with City of Clearwater
News
September 18, 2014
By a 10-1 margin, CWA Clearwater members have ratified a new contract to run from October 1, 2014 until September 30, 2017. It is the 15th collective bargaining agreement the members have reached with the City since 1976.
New American Airlines Passenger Service Agents Vote Big for Union Representation
Press Release
9,000 American Airlines passenger service agents, after a 19-year struggle, joined together today in a vote with the members of the USAirways CWA-IBT Association to form a new bargaining unit of 14,500 agents at American Airlines. It is the largest labor organizing victory in the South in decades.