In a move to allow newspaper workers to become employee-owners, The Newspaper Guild-CWA and its financial partner, The Yucaipa Companies, have submitted a bid for the 12 Knight Ridder newspapers being sold by the McClatchy Co. after its acquisition of the chain.
As businesses lobby to bring more high-tech workers into the US through the H1-B visa program, CWA and the AFL-CIO are fighting for American jobs by supporting a bill to cap the number of visas.
NJ state workers represented by CWA are fighting for full funding of their pension plan as the governor grapples with the economic fallout from years of Republican tax cuts.
Professional employees at the New Jersey Housing Mortgage and Finance Agency won CWA representation this week under New Jersey's new card check organizing law.
