Bargaining Update
Bargaining updates for Verizon, AT&T West, United Airlines and the Hawaii Tribune-Herald.
The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act will put power in the hands of workers. Call 1-877-750-7411 or click the Take Action button.
A majority of wireless tower climbers at QualTek have voted for union representation with CWA in an election that was conducted yesterday.
Today, Quality Assurance workers at Activision’s Raven Software video game studio won their union election and will be represented by CWA.
Former Activision employee Jessica Gonzalez is appealing the $18 million sexual harassment and discrimination settlement between the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Activision Blizzard.
Bargaining updates for Verizon, AT&T West, United Airlines and the Hawaii Tribune-Herald.
The release of the ITC report on the TPP this week demonstrates that the TPP would not deliver the economic benefits promised by the U.S. Trade Representative.
CWA activists in New Jersey are mobilizingto build support for a constitutional amendment that will require the government to fully fund public workers' pensions.
Organizing updates from DirecTV, GoJet and AT&T Global Customer Service.
The Obama Administration announced a new rule this week to ensure that workers are paid fairly for overtime hours.
Another big win at T-Mobile US!
Today's release of the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) report on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) demonstrates that the TPP would not deliver the economic benefits promised by the U.S. Trade Representative. Instead, the report shows that the deal would be disastrous, increasing the U.S. trade deficit by over $21 billion per year and harming employment in key industries.
The parties involved in the Verizon labor dispute, including the senior leadership of the unions and the company and their bargaining teams, met today in Washington with Labor Secretary Tom Perez and Allison Beck, an experienced federal mediator who the parties agreed today would assist in the ongoing contract negotiations.
U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez met at the U.S. Labor Department with Lowell McAdam, chairman and CEO of Verizon; Chris Shelton, president of the Communications Workers of America; and Lonnie Stephenson, president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
Over the course of a four-day visit to the Philippines this week, four representatives of Communications Workers of America who are on strike discovered that the extent to which Verizon is offshoring work is far beyond what has previously been reported and what the company publicly has claimed.
The Communications Workers of America represents working people in telecommunications, customer service, media, airlines, health care, public service and education, manufacturing, tech and other fields.