News

  • New York CWA Members Lobby in Albany for Safe Staffing and Protecting Call Center Jobs
    CWAers flooded the New York capitol building with red this week for a huge lobby day! Members across the state made the trip to Albany to talk with elected officials about safe staffing legislation for healthcare workers, protecting New York call center jobs, and ensuring that Verizon builds out FiOS in all of our communities. — May 16
  • Getting out the Vote in Pennsylvania!
    CWA political activists from Locals 13000, 13500, and 13301 are knocking on doors, making phone calls, and talking to members at work sites to get out the vote for candidates who support CWA, labor, and worker rights in Pennsylvania in next week's primary election. Last week, activists met with At-Large Philadelphia City Council candidate Isaiah Thomas and Pittsburgh District 7 Councilwoman Deb Gross to talk about building power for working people in this election and beyond. — May 16
  • CWA Local 7476 Gears Up for Contract Negotiations
    On May 4, CWA Local 7476 officers and division reps held their annual meeting in North Platte, Neb., to strategize as members at Black Hills Energy in Nebraska and Wyoming gear up for contract negotiations later this year. — May 16
  • CWA Calls on Congress to Invest in Infrastructure and Broadband
    CWA, along with a coalition of some of the nation's largest unions and environmental groups, is calling on leaders of the U.S. House and Senate to move forward swiftly with a robust and ambitious plan to rebuild and transform America's infrastructure, including broadband. If done right, this plan would boost the U.S. economy and create millions of jobs, while reducing pollution, combating climate change, and strengthening communities. The letter from the BlueGreen Alliance puts good jobs and protecting the freedom of working people to join unions to improve their working conditions front and center. Any comprehensive infrastructure plan must include using project labor agreements (PLAs), and include provisions and practices that prioritize collective bargaining agreements and workers' organizing rights like neutrality, majority sign-up, and first contract arbitration. It also asks Congress to include Davis-Bacon provisions that ensure workers are paid prevailing wages. In addition to the letter, CWA recently released a separate infrastructure proposal to Congress urging legislators to invest strongly in broadband, which should be considered essential infrastructure of the 21st century. High-speed internet connections provide a gateway to economic growth, jobs, education, healthcare, public safety, energy efficiency, civic participation, and communication among friends and family. CWA called on legislators to implement broadband infrastructure solutions that will best serve working people in order to help guarantee universal access to high-speed broadband, close the digital divide, and promote good jobs in the telecommunications industry. — May 16
  • As Wildfire Season Approaches, It's Time to Protect Outdoor Workers from Smoke Exposure
    CWA District 9 has submitted comments to the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) urging them to strengthen proposed emergency standards to protect outdoor workers from wildfire smoke exposure as California wildfire season approaches. CWA D9 represents more than 10,000 workers employed as technicians at companies including AT&T, Frontier, and Verizon, many of whom are assigned work that includes performing job functions in an outdoor environment throughout California.   In the comments, CWA D9 urges Cal/OSHA to remove any exemption for utility workers, increase worker training obligations for employers, and require fit-testing of respirators to provide workers enough protection to reduce exposures in areas of high fire risk. — May 16