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CWA has launched a website in support of a campaign by the AFL-CIO to oust Verizon board members who voted what it said is excessive pay for company CEO Ivan Seidenberg.

It took more than three years, but the National Labor Relations Board has finally backed charges by NABET-CWA against CNN for using a restructure ploy to tear up union contracts for 350 field camera crews and other technical workers in its news operations in New York and Washington, D.C.

Maryland has become the first state to require its contractors to pay employees a living wage, a victory for working families pushed by a coalition of union members, religious leaders and civil rights advocates.

CWA has launched the first of a series of free online, interactive training courses as part of the effort to build a Stewards Army of activists for grassroots action on key issues and campaigns.

A multinational poll shows that strong majorities around the world – including nine out of 10 people in the United States – want trade agreements to meet minimum labor and environmental standards.