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Appliance Park Lean Manufacturing Saves Jobs, Safeguards Workers’ Health and Safety
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.
NJ Governor Vetoes Leah's Law
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie vetoed “Leah’s Law,” endangering thousands of child welfare workers who are engaged in some of the most dangerous work in the state.
The bipartisan legislation was named for CWA Local 1038 member Leah Coleman who was stabbed more than 20 times by a deranged client in November 2014. The brutal attack, which nearly cost Leah her life, occurred just days after the Christie administration made the cost-cutting decision to pull all police officers out of New Jersey Department of Children and Families (DCF) offices. Without security or metal detectors, the client walked into the building with a nine-inch kitchen knife in broad daylight. Thankfully, two CWA caseworkers were able to tackle and subdue the assailant, while three HPAE nurses treated Leah’s wounds until the ambulance arrived.
Organizing Update
DirecTV Call Center Workers Join CWA; First Transit Workers Join CWA
Bargaining Update
CWA Verizon members have been saying it for months: Verizon is the poster child for corporate greed.
CWA's Website Has a New Look
If you've visited our CWA-Union.org website this week you may have noticed a few changes.