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Arbitration Award: CWA Local 9003/Verizon Accident Plan

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January 23, 2012
This precedent-setting ruling supports CWA?s position that Verizon?s Safety Policy/Accident Plan is arbitrary and capricious- intended to be used as a method to control and intimidate Company employees. If CWA leaders and members should witness or know of Company behavior identified in this case, they should notify their Local Union president, and/or CWA Staff as well as the Union?s Occupational Safety and Health Department.

Labor to Cuomo: Keep up the Fight for Public Financing of Elections

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January 19, 2012
Adding new momentum in the fight to clean up Albany, the presidents of three national labor unions are commending New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for his leadership in pressing for public funding of elections in the state, and urging him to keep up the fight.

In a letter to the Governor, the presidents of the UAW, SEIU and Communications Workers of America write that ?uniting us all is a commitment to the idea that all workers deserve a voice and that in a democracy, wealth should not determine political powers. The status quo systems of elections in New York, with their sky-high donation limits and lack of public matching funds, undermine these principles.?