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Also in Summer 2010
- Ready for the Future: Moving Forward Together
- SIF: Health Care/Employee Free Choice: "We Couldn't Have Done it Without the SIF"
- SIF: T-Mobile: New Strategy to Win Bargaining Rights
- SIF: Verizon-Frontier: "We Welcomed the Opportunity to Do Our Part"
- SIF: Windstream: The Fight for Retiree Health Care Goes On
- SIF: Verizon Business: Tearing Down the Wall
- SIF: Lean Manufacturing: 'Plant Managers are Telling Managers that the Union has Value'
- SIF: Media Projects: 'People are So Jealous that Our Union is Able to Do This'
- Building a Political Movement: 'The Beginning of a New Political Movement'
- Building a Political Movement: A New NLRB: Another Path to Protecting Workers' Rights
- Building a Political Movement: Holding Elected Leaders Accountable
- Building a Political Movement: 'We Showed that Politics Can Be About Creating Jobs'
- Building a Political Movement: NMB Rule Change Brings Democracy to Airline Elections
- Building a Political Movement: 'We Can Now Count on Members Who Will Immediately Volunteer'
- Building a Political Movement: St. Louis: A Model for CWA Teamwork
- Stewards Army: Stewards Army on Active Duty for CWA Nationwide
- Stewards Army: 'We're Stronger and We've Gained Respect'
- Diversity: Board Diversity Seats "A Great Bridge-Builder"
SIF: Speed Matters: CWA a Leading Voice for High-Speed Broadband
When the Federal Communications Commission outlined its National Broadband Plan earlier this year, it included many of CWA’s “Speed Matters” proposals.
That’s because CWA has been leading a national campaign for nearly four years to bring high speed broadband to every community and household. The United States is 15th in the world in broadband adoption and falling, and more than 100 million Americans don’t have broadband at home.
Supported by CWA’s Strategic Industry Fund, Speed Matters is a win-win proposition. The build-out will bring world class broadband to communities across the U.S., with 21st century telecommunications and needed economic development. This effort will create tens of thousands of jobs, and CWA is determined that they will be good, union jobs.
Speed Matters Victories
- National Broadband Plan - Until the FCC released its National Broadband Plan, the United States had been the only industrialized country without a plan for universal, high-speed Internet access.
- Broadband Proposals in Stimulus Bill - To help expand broadband in rural areas, Congress included $7.2 billion in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in February 2009.
- Federal Broadband Mapping Legislation - Congress passed and funded a mapping plan to better know who is and isn’t being served.
- Speed Matters in the 2008 Presidential Campaign - By hosting Speed Matters events in the months leading up to the Iowa caucuses, local CWA activists got every Democratic candidate for president to endorse the campaign, and it became part of the Democratic Party platform.
- Help Consumers Measure Their Speeds -CWA’s online Speed Test proved so popular that it’s been used by the FCC. Over three years, CWA collected 843,000 tests and published annual reports on Internet speed by state, generating lots of media coverage.
- Build Coalitions - The Sierra Club is just the latest CWA ally in the fight for broadband build out. Other critical partners are the Alliance for Digital Equality, Connected Nation, the American Library Association, American Telemedicine Association, the American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association and many more.