Citing support from CWA and unions around the world, the Chunghwa Telecom Workers Union announced a new collective bargaining agreement with Chunghwa Telecom in Taiwan that provides key safeguards for members in the aftermath of the company's privatization.
Democracy and workers' rights go hand in hand in a way Europeans understand far better than most Americans, CWA President Larry Cohen told an audience today at the Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C.
CWA and Verizon Information Services reached a tentative agreement on Jan. 26, which, if approved by the membership, will end the 13-week strike by 300 VIS workers in New York.
At a National Press Club speech this week, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney posed the question, "What if President Bush told the American people the truth?" about the economy, saying the "senseless slaughter" of good American jobs is the most critical challenge facing the United States today.
