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Workers Ratify New Four Year Deal with Verizon
Verizon workers represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions and at Verizon Connected Solutions voted to ratify a four year extension of...
Why AT&T Workers May Have to Strike
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson made a promise to invest in his workforce and create at least 7,000 jobs if the tax bill passed. Well, the bill passed and AT&T laid off over a thousand workers...
Stop the FCC's Dangerous Job Killing Plan
CWA members are fighting hard to stop a dangerous Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposal that endangers workers and could send CWA members' work to unskilled, untrained, low-wage...
How a Work Stoppage Works
Today, Verizon workers represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) announced a tentative agreement on a four year...
Contract Agreement Reached a Year Early at Verizon
UPDATE: Click here for more details about the contract. After spending 7 weeks on strike in 2016, we are happy to report that the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and Verizon have come to...
Congress asks AT&T Where are the Jobs?
What is AT&T doing with its massive profits from the Republican corporate tax cut bill? That's the question members of Congress are now asking.
How the Trump Tax Cut is Failing Working People
CWA President Chris Shelton appeared on Washington Post Live to discuss how the Republican corporate tax cut bill has failed working families in its first six months.
Families Belong Together
We have all read the news, seen the videos, or heard the tapes of children's cries for their mothers and fathers after being separated at the U.S. southern border. It is heartbreaking and...
Friday News Briefs: Parental Leave and Another Trump Scam
This was a busy week in labor news. Trump proposed merging the Labor Department and the Education Department and announced his support for a National Right to Work Bill. While all of this drama was...
CWA Organizing Blitz Signs Up 100 New Members
UPTE-CWA Local 9119 held an organizing blitz to fight back against a potential anti-union Janus Supreme Court decision in June by signing up almost 100 new members in the University of California...