News

Sept. 14 is opening day for CWA's campaign to build participants and contributions to CWA-COPE, our union's political action program. The message for CWAers: If we're serious about real health care reform, restoring bargaining rights, strengthening our union contracts and building the middle class, we need to be a part of CWA-COPE.

At a forum sponsored by the Bipartisan Policy Center and Better Health Care Together, a coalition that includes CWA, AT&T, and other union and business groups, labor, corporate and political leaders had lots to agree on when it comes to health care reform.

CWA, IBEW, Verizon and a diverse group of business, health care and retiree organizations have formed the "Bridge Years Health Coalition," to support efforts for reform of the health care system and to make sure that the concerns of Americans aged 55-64 get addressed in health care reform.

With the assistance of CWA's News Media Guild and the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center, journalists at the Associated Press in Mexico won union recognition and bargaining rights with STRM, Mexico's strongest and most democratic telecom union.

In a teleconference with more than 200 local union presidents, CWA President Larry Cohen and Executive Vice President Annie Hill laid out the strategy to win real health care reform. Cohen stressed that "the work we do over the next eight or nine weeks will be decisive as to whether we improve conditions for our members and our families. We can't sit and watch and hope. We have to be fired up and get this done," he said.