News

AFA-CWA and Northwest Airlines reached a tentative agreement covering 8,000 flight attendants. The ratification vote for AFA-CWA members will begin on May 7 with voting to end on May 29, and roadshows -- AFA-CWA's contract explanation meetings -- will be held over the next several weeks.

At least eighty-five locals so far have met the goal of having 10 percent of their members signed up in the Stewards Army and more are very close to reaching that goal. CWA has long held that we need one steward or mobilizer for every 10 members.

IAPE Local 1096 of TNG-CWA issued a statement strongly opposing a bid by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to buy Dow Jones & Co. this week, noting: "Mr. Murdoch has shown a willingness to crush quality and independence, and there is no reason to think he would handle Dow Jones or the (Wall Street) Journal any differently."

Seeking fair wages and job security, 76 of the 91 workers at the AT&T Local Services customer service maintenance center in Monmouth Junction, N.J., gained representation with CWA Local 1150 under the union's card check and neutrality agreement with the AT&T. The workers' majority union support was certified on May 1 by the American Arbitration Association.

IBM has quietly laid off more than 1,300 workers in the U.S. over the past week as part of its ongoing effort to shift work to low-wage workers in India, China and Brazil.