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Employers Now Required to Disclose Cost of Health Care Coverage
News
February 21, 2013
Due to a new rule in the Affordable Care Act, tax forms this year will be required to include information on the cost of employer sponsored health care for the first time.
More New Jersey Hospital Workers Join CWA
News
January 17, 2013
A unit of 73 certified nursing assistants joined CWA last week, growing the union?s presence at a recently privatized county hospital.
AFA-CWA Sues Spirit Airlines for Equal Health Benefits for Domestic Partners
News
January 17, 2013
AFA-CWA has filed a lawsuit against Spirit Airlines for denying equal health care benefits to employees? legally recognized domestic partners. The lawsuit accuses the airline?s management of exploiting procedural loopholes to avoid this contractual obligation and forcing domestic partners into a lower-quality health care plan than the one covering other employees.
CWA Launches First Annual Healthcare Matters Conference
News
November 21, 2012
CWA healthcare workers from New York, New Jersey, Ohio and Iowa and as far away as California gathered for the first annual Healthcare Matters Conference in mid-October in Vernon Downs, NY.
Statement by CWA President Larry Cohen on President Obama's remarks
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Voters made a clear choice on Election Day. They rejected the politics of division and fear and, as the President said today, voted for action and a real focus on good jobs.