Aviation Workers Launch Public Campaign Demanding a Stop to Stock Buybacks in Aviation Until Problems Are Fixed
Stock buybacks don’t help families reach their destinations safely or ensure that flights are on time.
Worker Power Update
The CHIPS Act is signed into law, the U.S. Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act, the U.S. Commerce Department offers a Job Quality Toolkit, and more.
Union Leaders with Communications Workers of America Join President Biden as CHIPS Act is Signed into Law
The nearly $53 billion investment will create thousands of competitive American jobs and strengthen domestic manufacturing and supply chains.
CWA President Shelton Joins President Biden to Urge Passage of the CHIPS Act
CWA represents workers at onsemi, a semiconductor manufacturer in Mountain Top, Penn., which is currently the only union-represented final assembly semiconductor manufacturing workforce in the United States.
CWA President Shelton Joins President Biden to Urge Passage of the CHIPS Act
Communications Workers of America President Chris Shelton joined President Joe Biden for a roundtable on the importance of passing the CHIPS Act to promote domestic production of semiconductors and create good jobs in the United States.
Worker Power Update
On Monday, at a White House event attended by CWA Secretary-Treasurer Sara Steffens, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris announced a program that will make high speed broadband more affordable for millions of Americans.
IUE-CWA Co-Hosts First General Electric Annual Stakeholders Meeting and Sounds Alarm on GE Practices Weakening Manufacturing Jobs
We’re calling on GE to put the industrial future of America first.
Promoting Trade Policy that Prioritizes Workers
On Tuesday, CWA Legislative Specialist Elena Lopez testified at a U.S. International Trade Commission hearing, stressing the impact that offshoring facilitated by unfair trade policies has on workers.
Worker Power Update
Building Broadband Better in CWA District 1 and more.
“Don’t Split Us Up”: IUE-CWA Members Hold Valentine’s Day Actions Urging General Electric to Invest in America
Workers demonstrating at GE’s headquarters in Boston delivered a set of four national demands to the company.
IUE-CWA Members in Massachusetts Fight GE’s Offshoring and Outsourcing
Despite receiving over $315 million in new taxpayer funds through the National Defense Authorization Act, General Electric has announced that it will be cutting jobs at its facility in Lynn, Mass.
Shelton Outlines Stakes for IUE-CWA Workers at GE as Company Splits into Thirds
In an op-ed in Fortune, CWA President Chris Shelton outlined what is at stake for workers at General Electric following the announcement that it plans to split into three separate companies.
More Than 120 National Audubon Society Workers Across 11 Regions Vote to Form Union with Communications Workers of America
More than 120 workers across 11 regions at the National Audubon Society voted overwhelmingly in favor of forming a union with the CWA in a string of official National Labor Relations Board elections last week, joining their colleagues in the organization’s national headquarters as members of CWA.
CWA-PHEW: Jobs Report Highlights Urgent Crisis Facing America’s Public Sector Workforce
The Labor Department released its September jobs report, showing that America’s public sector workforce lost 123,000 jobs last month, on top of the hundreds of thousands of public sector jobs that have been lost since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It’s Time for GE to Bring Jobs Home
IUE-CWA members, along with a coalition of labor, environmental, trade, and veterans groups, launched a national campaign last week calling on General Electric to reinvest in domestic manufacturing jobs in green energy, military, and commercial aviation.
National Coalition Launches “Bring It Home GE” Campaign; Calls on General Electric To Invest Big in American Manufacturing, Stop Offshoring
A national coalition of labor, environmental, trade and veterans groups launched a nationwide campaign this week calling on manufacturing giant General Electric to heed the Biden administration’s call to “Build Back Better” by reinvesting in domestic manufacturing jobs in green energy, military, and commercial aviation.
Tell Congress to Pass the Build Back Better Act
CWA members across the country will be mobilizing to ensure that Congress passes the Build Back Better Act which will create jobs, cut taxes, lower costs for working families, and make it easier for workers to join unions.
IUE-CWA Members Launch Campaign for Good Green Jobs in Schenectady
A coalition of environmental groups, community advocates, and IUE-CWA members launched a public awareness campaign this week calling on elected leaders and General Electric to bring needed economic investment and good green union jobs to Schenectady, N.Y.
CWA Member Speaks Out During Roundtable Discussion with Vice President Harris
On Monday, Mapbox worker Jenn Chow joined Vice President Kamala Harris and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh for a roundtable discussion as part of the Biden administration’s Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment.
U.S. Trade Policy Should Encourage "A Race to the Top" for Workers
Last Thursday, U.S. Trade Rep. Katherine Tai addressed the importance of worker-centered trade in a historic speech.
CWA Launches 5G Technician Brigade
CWA technicians from all over the country joined a training last month to learn how to engage their local governments to advocate for transparency and accountability in their local permitting processes.
CWA and Community Leaders Tell GE: Reinvest in Good Union Jobs Now
On April 15, more than 100 labor leaders, lawmakers, environmental activists, and allies called on General Electric (GE) to stop outsourcing and offshoring American jobs.
Sen. Gillibrand and Rep. Pocan Introduce the End Outsourcing Act to Bring Back American Jobs
The act would use the federal tax code and federal grants, loans and contracts to stop the outsourcing of American jobs.
Infrastructure Bill Will Create Good Union Jobs
President Joe Biden announced his plan to rebuild our country, create millions of good, union jobs in the United States, and make sure that corporations pay their fair share of taxes.