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Verizon-Frontier Merger Costs Customers, Workers, Taxpayers as Verizon Gets Government Dollars Under
Press Release
Verizon's plan to sell 4.8 million rural landlines in 14 states to Frontier Communications will cost taxpayers $600 million and will cost communities even more. If this proposed sale goes through, communities, especially in rural areas, won't have access to high speed broadband and other telecommunications advances, expanding the digital divide and setting back economic growth.
CWA, Allies in Congress Set Battlelines Against Verizon-Frontier Deal
News
January 7, 2010
CWA joined members of Congress and other allies today in a media teleconference to outline concerns about the proposed Verizon-Frontier merger and discuss ways to eliminate a tax loophole that allows Verizon and other companies to sell assets tax-free to smaller companies that end up burdened by debt.
CWA, IBEW, AT&T and Verizon Team up to Oppose Tax on Health Care Plans
Press Release
In a unique partnership between business and labor, the Communications Workers of America (CWA), the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), AT&T and Verizon have joined forces in opposition to the excise tax in the Senate version of the health care reform bill and of the provision that affects the Medicare Part D subsidy for prescription drug coverage.
Ergonomics, Nine Years Later
News
December 1, 2009
Almost nine years ago, one of the first actions taken by the Bush administration was the repeal of a federal ergonomics standard issued just months earlier by the outgoing Clinton administration. Left in place, the OSHA standard, some 10 years in the making, could have prevented tens of millions of work-related injuries. Among those most vulnerable are CWA members in customer service, manufacturing, health care and related occupations.
Verizon - Frontier sale opponents lobby at West Virginia state house
News
October 14, 2009
Union members and community supporters opposed to the sale of Verizon's landlines to Frontier Communications took part in a grassroots lobby day on October 14 at the Capitol in Charleston to talk with their state legislators about the impact of the sale on the future of West Virginia. About 75 members from Communications Workers of America (CWA) local unions who work for Verizon or Frontier participated.