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A Movement Moment: Growing Support for Overturning Citizens United
Press Release
CWA is first union to join United For the People, to fight back against corporate money and corporate control in politics.
U.S. Elections Up For Sale
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January 1, 2012
In its January 2010 Citizens United decision, the U.S. Supreme Court turned election and political spending upside down. With the Court?s determination that ?corporations are people too,? with free speech rights and other individual liberties, it eliminated the campaign spending restrictions that were put in place more than a century ago to stop corporations and other groups from exerting undue influence and spending millions of dollars and more in the electoral process.
How We're Fighting Back -- Corporate Money in Politics
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December 22, 2011
CWA, our Legislative Political Action Teams in every district and our progressive allies are fighting back against this flood of corporate and wealthy dollars that is destroying our democratic process. Here?s how.
Using Every Tool in Their Arsenal, Delta Lobbies Against Fair Elections
Press Release
The manager of corporate communications for Delta Air Lines, Chris Kelly Singley, recently said, "We don't want to engage in a political debate…And we just thought we were flying airplanes." Yet new revelations included in Delta's new lobbying disclosure report highlight that Delta doth protest too much. Despite their avowedly apolitical stance Delta continues to drive a union-busting political agenda, and is ready and willing to throw around a range of dollars and perks to sweeten the pot for lawmakers - no matter the cost to the American taxpayer or traveler.