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CWA: No Fast Track for Trans-Pacific Partnership
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October 1, 2013
The evidence just keeps mounting. The Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement, is a bad deal that could jeopardize U.S. jobs, wages, consumer safety and environmental standards, while pushing back workers? rights in other countries even more.
IUE-IG Metall Partnership Grows
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October 1, 2013
If IUE-CWA Local 84765 President Wayne Cupp ever needs guidance on a concern at the Siemens plant in Norwood, Ohio, he doesn't hesitate to put in a call to German union leaders.
Working Together for Good Jobs, Strong Communities
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October 1, 2013
We can?t do it alone. That?s why we?re uniting with people of faith, environmentalists, civil rights activists, neighborhood organizers, students, immigrant groups and many others, to win real change and real programs benefiting workers? goals of good jobs, bargaining rights, and health care and retirement security. We?re in this together, and we will win.
CWA HEALTH CARE REFORM UPDATE: ACA for Laid Off and Comp Time Workers
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September 30, 2013
The most important provisions of President Obama's health care reform bill (the Affordable Care Act) are set to go into effect January 1, 2014. CWA bargainers from around the country have been sending us excellent questions about health reform and other health care matters. We will be posting our answers to these questions here on the CWA Health Care web page as they come up. Today's question is about the treatment of workers who have been laid off and on comp time under the law.
Frontier West Virginia (formerly Verizon) Bargaining Report #36
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September 30, 2013
The Union and the Company met today.