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Flight Attendants are entrusted with the safety, health, and security of passengers. But they’re often asked to perform duties on their “rest” time, resulting in getting less rest than required.

A top legislative priority for AFA-CWA is increased minimum rest requirements for Flight Attendants to be included in the Federal Aviation Administration’s authorization. 

For airport ramp workers at Piedmont Airlines, safety is the top priority. 

Each year, CWA, working in partnership with the Steelworkers union and the Tony Mazzocchi Center, trains about 1,000 workers across all our sectors. The goal: to train a new generation of health and safety activists using the most up-to-date training programs and methodology and to build even stronger links among CWA activists and with health and safety activists throughout the labor movement and allies.  

New York nurses are fighting back against management pressure to take on 9, 10 or even more patients at once. They know that’s not safe for patients or nurses. Research shows that when nurses care for two to three times the patients they can safely manage, the chances of preventable death, hospital acquired infections, and adverse outcomes increase.

Appliance Park in Kentucky was one of the biggest GE operations in the country, manufacturing washer/dryer units and other appliances. It also had been a huge offshorer of good jobs and manufacturing. In fact, employment, once at 9,000, had fallen below 2,000 by 2011. But IUE-CWA has been working to reverse that decline with the rollout of the Lean High Performance Manufacturing program, and now some 4,000 IUE-CWA Local 83761 members are building appliances at the Louisville facility.