CWA made a case for responsible corporate governance at IBM, General Electric and AT&T this week, at the first of several shareholder actions on the calendar this spring.
Washington, D.C -- The Communications Workers of America will open contract negotiations with Avaya on May 1 for a new agreement covering 2,900 workers. The current contract expires May 27; negotiations will be held in Washington, D.C.
Service reps, operators and retail workers from across CWA met in Houston for CWA's 2006 Customer Service Conference, to build solidarity within their industry and to stand with the Texas State Employees Union-CWA Local 6186, who staged a rally against privatization of their work.
The University Professional and Technical Employees, CWA Local 9119, has filed a lawsuit challenging the actions by the University of California and U.S. Department of Energy that threaten the retirement security of employees of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
Nine members of TNG-CWA at the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Rocky Mountain News in Denver are among the 2006 Pulitzer Prize winners for outstanding print journalism.
