News & Events

October 8, 2020

CWAers Phonebank Together to Elect Biden!

With only a few weeks left until Election Day, more than 500 volunteers have made thousands of calls in the past couple of days alone to flip the Senate and to elect Biden-Harris!

October 8, 2020

Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect, 2020

This week, the AFL-CIO released its yearly report on the state of safety and health protections for America's workers.

October 8, 2020

Lawsuit Targets Feds’ Failure to Protect Frontline Workers From COVID-19

Labor unions representing healthcare workers, telecoms workers, teachers, transit operators and millions of other frontline workers joined with environmental groups today to sue the federal government over its failure to provide adequate reusable respirators, N95 masks, gloves and other personal protective equipment to these essential workers.

October 6, 2020

Donald Trump’s Erratic and Impulsive Refusal to Discuss COVID Relief Creates Unnecessary Hardship for Working Families

By declaring that his administration will not discuss a COVID relief package until after the election, Donald Trump has shown the American people where his priorities lie.

October 5, 2020

AT&T Retail Store Closures are Business as Usual

Last week, AT&T announced plans to close 320 company-owned AT&T Mobility retail stores in November and December, disrupting the employment of over 1,600 workers during the holiday season.

October 5, 2020

New Reports Detail How Telecoms Companies Like AT&T are Failing to Provide Broadband and Good Jobs

3 new reports released today by the Communications Workers of America, the Economic Policy Institute, and the National Digital Inclusion Alliance describe how profit-driven corporations have left communities without access to next-generation fiber networks and eliminated good jobs, with a spotlight on AT&T.

October 1, 2020

Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans Miss Deadline, Leaving Thousands of Airline Workers Without Jobs

For weeks, aviation workers have been loudly sounding the alarm bell to Senate Republicans: if they didn't extend the Payroll Support Program, thousands of passenger service agents and Flight Attendants were guaranteed to lose their jobs on October 1st.

October 1, 2020

We Must Fix Our Broken Senate

The House of Representatives has passed hundreds of bills that would help working families, but Mitch McConnell has blocked them all.

October 1, 2020

Trump’s Nomination for Supreme Court Would Give Corporations Even More Power

Amy Coney Barrett has a track record of giving more power and control over our lives to corporations and leaving working people behind.

October 1, 2020

Keep Getting Out the Vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris

The votes that we cast as union members will be crucial in ensuring we have pro-labor candidates elected at the local and state levels, all the way up to the White House.