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CWAers Challenge Windstream CEO on Retiree Health Care, Lawsuit
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May 6, 2010
Angry about Windstream's decision to eliminate retiree health care, more than 150 active and retired CWAers jammed the company's shareholder meeting in Little Rock, Ark.
NY State Senate Hearing Calls Out Xerox/ACS on EZ Pass Fight
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May 6, 2010
E-Z Pass call center workers in Staten Island, N.Y., are getting growing support from New York State elected and public officials in their fight for a fair contact.
CWAers Out in Force at VZ Annual Meeting
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May 6, 2010
CWA and IBEW members leafleted shareholders outside the Verizon annual meeting in Little Rock, stressing that Verizon risks damaging its corporate reputation by looking to use a tax loophole to sell off landlines and backing away from the build-out of high speed broadband.
Improving Call Center Jobs a Top Priority for CWA Customer Service Activists
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May 6, 2010
At a meeting of CWA's new Customer Service Activist Network, local union leaders across CWA sectors came together to talk about the critical problems facing customer service reps: unreasonable sales quotas, monitoring, health problems tied to stress, repetitive motion and headsets, and a general lack of respect.
Protecting Workers' Rights, Broadband Key to Green Jobs Being "Good Jobs"
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May 6, 2010
Protecting workers' rights and building out high-speed broadband to every community will spur the economic growth our country needs and create quality, union, green jobs, CWA President Larry Cohen told participants at the Good Jobs Green Jobs Conference.
Cohen said access to high-speed broadband networks is critical to the economic survival and growth of rural communities and towns across the country, just as water rights and highways were in years past. "Without access, those communities will disappear."