Resolutions Spotlight Member Fights, Many Issues

In addition to laying out CWA's Ready for the Future strategy and action plan, convention delegates passed resolutions backing fellow members in battles with major media companies and airlines and calling for a broad range of policy initiatives. Resolutions this year call for:

• Generating broad, grassroots support for universal health coverage by building on the nation's Medicare system.
  
  
• Joining the National Coalition for a Cesar E. Chavez National Holiday to ensure that the Chavez's legacy is recognized and celebrated.
  
  
• Condemning the Washington Post for its vicious anti-union campaign against its Mailers' union, CWA Local 14201.
  
  
• Fully supporting the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to guarantee that no one is denied the right to vote.
  
  
• Demanding fair trade laws that protect workers' jobs in the United States and the rights of workers in other countries.
  
  
• Fighting for immigration reform that respects all workers' rights and protects American jobs by reducing or eliminating the H1-B visa program.
  
  
• Launching a national "Speed Matters" campaign to insist that the federal government adopt a national broadband policy to bring high-speed internet access to all Americans by 2010.
  
  
• Supporting AFA-CWA members at Mesaba Airlines who are fighting their bankrupt employer's attempt to nullify their contract.
  
  
• Promoting the formation of new CWA State Councils.
  
  
• Standing with the members of NABET-CWA Local 59053 at the National Captioning Institute and demanding that the NLRB address firings and other outrageous anti-union actions by the employer.