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Local Members And Retirees Prove Invaluable To Each Other
CWA retirees are anything but, well, retiring. And that's great news for locals. Many of them count on retirees to turn out for rallies, lend a hand with political campaigns and fight hard for workers' rights as well as seniors' issues.
Workers’ Rights Are Human Rights: 60,000 Union Members Take to the Nation’s Streets
In cities stretching from Dayton, Ohio, to Oakland, Calif., from Houston to Boston and Seattle to Washington, D.C., thousands of CWA members took part in the biggest mobilization of workers in years during the week leading to Dec. 10, 2005 — International Human Rights Day.
CWA Reaches Pact for 11,000 at AT&T
In bargaining with the "old AT&T," and with an eye toward its combination with SBC to give the AT&T name to the largest Baby Bell, CWA reached a tentative agreement covering 11,000 workers at the long distance company.
Organizing Round Up: 2,400 Cingular Workers, 400 Others Join CWA
It’s a happy new year for 2,400 Cingular workers in the continental United States and Hawaii who gained CWA recognition in December and early January, along with more than 400 other workers in the public and private sectors.
Safety and Health Alert: High Voltage Hazards
Underscoring the dangers of working on telephone polls that also carry electrical power lines, in just the past years two CWA members at SBC in Northern California died from electric shock and two others suffered "near-miss" injuries from coming in contact with power lines.