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CWA Urges Delay in Smallpox Inoculation for First Responders, Health Care Professionals
Press Release
Washington, DC -- Serious concerns about the safety and effectiveness of the plan to inoculate health care, public safety and other civilian professionals against smallpox has prompted a call by the Communications Workers to delay the start of the national program.
Communications Workers Win New Sprint Contracts
Press Release
Down-to-the-deadline bargaining has produced tentative agreements covering 3,000 CWA members at Sprint Corp. local telephone operations in five states.
IUE-CWA UE Shut 64 GE Plants in Health Care Strike
News
January 17, 2003
In the first national strike against General Electric in more than three decades, IUE-CWA and UE workers shut down GE facilities in 23 states.
CWA Reaches Early Lucent Contract
News
January 17, 2003
In early bargaining, CWA reached a tentative 20-month agreement with Lucent Technologies covering nearly 6,000 workers.
CWA Mourns Kjeston Michelle Rodgers, GE Striker Killed on Picket Line: Union establishes fund to hel
Press Release
Washington, D.C. -- CWA is standing strong with the family, friends and co-workers of Kjeston Michelle Rodgers, a member of IUE-CWA Local 83761 who was killed as she walked the picket line outside the General Electric Co. plant in Louisville, Ky.