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Senate Rules Reform Moves Forward
News
January 6, 2011
A proposal to reform the U.S. Senate rules was introduced Jan. 5, the first day of the new Congress. CWA and more than 50 other organizations, including the League of Women Voters, have been working for months to improve the way the Senate works.
NLRB Regions Directed to Take Action Against Labor Law Violators
News
January 6, 2011
Signaling an aggressive new commitment to protect workers? union rights, the National Labor Relations Board?s general counsel is instructing the agency?s regional offices to take swift action against employers who interfere with workers during organizing campaigns.
William J. Boarman Becomes Public Printer
Press Release
Bill Boarman sworn in as the Public Printer of the United States.
Broken Senate Rules Continue to Delay the People's Business
News
December 22, 2010
Want to hear how the Senate rules don't work from an inside source? Click on this interview with the "Secret Senator," who talks about obstruction and other political games that have stalled action on important issues for working families throughout the two years of the 111th Congress.
Ground Zero Responders Bill Remains Blocked by Abuse of Senate Rules
News
December 22, 2010
As this CWA Newsletter closed out, some Senate Republicans led by Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) were continuing to stall discussion of the bill to provide health care and compensation to Sept. 11 responders at Ground Zero. The legislation would help ailing police officers, firefighters, telecom workers and others ? including many CWA members -- who were on the ground in the earliest days following Sept. 11.