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CWA: Tauzin-Dingell Bill Will Boost Jobs, Investment, Economy
Washington, D.C.-- Communications Workers of America President Morton Bahr is calling on the House of Representatives to jumpstart the economy by adopting the Tauzin-Dingell bill, also known as the Internet Freedom and Broadband Deployment Act, H.R. 1542.
Statement by Linda Guyer, president of Alliance@IBM, on the firing of more than 1,200 workers in IBM
IBM's announcement this week that it will fire more than 1,200 employees in its microelectronics division is bad news, not only for longtime workers who are losing their jobs, but for IBM which will need their skills for the planned expansion of its chipmaking facilities and the turnaround of the in
CWA's Cohen Elected to Head UNI World Telecom Committee
Washington, D.C. – Larry Cohen, executive vice president of the Communications Workers of America, was unanimously elected president of the World Telecom Committee of Union Network International.
Historic GTE Pact Renegotiated with Verizon
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November 1, 2001
CWA has renegotiated the historic national agreement reached with GTE in 1998, winning major retirement security gains and other improvements in a tentative pact covering 24,000 employees at the former GTE units of Verizon.
Stepping Up to the Plate Against New Era
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November 1, 2001
As the top teams in baseball headed into the World Series, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney and CWA President Morton Bahr joined Local 14177 members in appealing to Major League players for help to end the union’s strike against New Era Cap Co.