News

Get on the CWA town hall call tonight and get the inside story on what really happened on the NLRB and Senate rules. We?ll also have an update on support for Cablevision workers in New York, plus reports from activists on our T-Mobile campaign, Frontier Communications bargaining and the consumer coalition in San Francisco.

Finally, there was action in the U.S. Senate this week on nominations to several important executive branch positions.

CWA issued this statement on the confirmation of Tom Perez as Secretary of Labor.

U.S. Representatives Linda S?nchez (CA-38) and Joe Courtney (CT-2) were joined by nearly 200 of their Democratic colleagues in calling on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to end the obstruction over executive nominations, including the five nominations to the National Labor Relations Board.

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), CWA President Larry Cohen and Ed Mierzwinski, head of U.S. Public Interest Research Group and Americans for Financial Reform held a teleconference joined by 5,000 activists on the critical need for Senate rules reform.