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CWA Joins White House Jobs Summit, Calls for 'Workplace Summit' Strategy |
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Thursday, 03 December 2009 00:00 |
- CWA Joins White House Jobs Summit, Calls for 'Workplace Summit' Strategy
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CWA Joins White House Jobs Summit, Calls for 'Workplace Summit' Strategy
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| CWA Pres Cohen at White House Jobs Summit. |
At today's White House Jobs Summit, CWA President Larry Cohen joined the nation's leading labor, corporate, small business and other leaders to focus on the critical connection between jobs and economic growth. President Obama, Vice President Biden and top government officials made remarks and listened as participants presented ideas about job creation and the economy.
Cohen was part of the discussion on "creating jobs through rebuilding America's infrastructure," which looked at both traditional infrastructure investment like roads and schools, and the necessary buildout of high speed broadband that will help the United States regain its standing as a leader in the Internet age and create quality jobs.
Cohen also joined an earlier tech panel led by the Administration's technology and science team that looked at job creation through innovation and new technology.
CWA is calling for a new policy initiative and new perspective on jobs that will help bring about real economic recovery. Right now, the nation is in a vicious cycle of corporate job cuts and contracting out that has frozen unemployment above 10 percent. Every employer that cuts jobs to preserve profits or improve its share value adds to the current recession.
Workers and employers must hold their own job summits, and corporate leaders must change practices that cut jobs at the expense of workers and economic growth. CWA also is calling on the Obama administration to evaluate all programs and Federal decisions on the basis of their job creation or job destruction implications. Similar to the environmental impact review required of many projects, CWA believes that a jobs impact analysis should be undertaken as a critical component in decision-making and the approval process. For more information, go to www.jobsnotcuts.org
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Keep up the Calls to Fight Tax on Our Health Care Benefits |
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Wednesday, 25 November 2009 15:34 |
- Keep up the Calls to Fight Tax on Our Health Care Benefits
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Keep up the Calls to Fight Tax on Our Health Care Benefits
CWA is stepping up the fight against a Senate plan to tax our health care. CWA's message to Senators: we need health care reform, but taxing our benefits is the wrong way to do it.
CWAers already have made tens of thousands of calls to members of Congress and we're leading every union in this effort. Now, it's time to double and triple those efforts, said CWA President Larry Cohen. "Starting now, local union presidents, staffs and officers are scheduling meetings and calls with senators to make sure they know how strongly we oppose taxing health care benefits. There is a better way to finance health care reform," he said.
Starting Monday, Nov. 30, when Congress is back from the Thanksgiving recess, CWA's worksite program will be in full force again. Look for stewards and co-workers who will have mobile phones ready so members can use CWA's toll free hotline to the Senate to deliver our message loud and clear. Members also will be getting e-mail and text alerts with more information.
If you've already called your senators, don't stop now. Members should call as much as possible, to make sure our voice is heard.
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Wednesday, 02 December 2009 08:59 |
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Dear Union Member,
 I was talking to a lobbyist a few days ago, and I asked him how many times he tried to meet with each of his target legislators. He immediately burst out laughing. Why? Because he tries to meet with each of them as many times as he can.
We need to do the same thing.
The health care bill that the Senate is considering would tax health care benefits. If we are going to stop this tax, we must be relentless.
If you've written a letter or made a call to your senators already about why we need real health care reform that does not tax our benefits, we need you to write another one.
If you've written two letters about why we need real health care reform that does not tax our benefits, we need you to keep writing.
One letter is not enough. Two letters are not enough.
No matter how many letters you've written, we need you to write more.
Relentless. That's what the lobbyists are. Relentless in their pursuit of corporate interests. We must be relentless, too. We cannot stop. We cannot rest. We must continue to fight for fair reform. Write a letter today. Write a letter tomorrow. It is our time.
Without a relentless effort by every one of us, we won't win real health care reform that doesn't tax our benefits and that requires employers to pay their fair share.
Write a letter today. And get ready to write more letters and make more calls next week. We are contacting members in key states about calling their senators – be prepared to do it and get other CWA members to do it to.
Momentum is on our side, but the lobbyists for Big Business and the insurance companies aren't letting up.
We can and will win with your help.
Beth Allen
Online Mobilization Coordinator
CWA e-Activist Network
P.S. It really does matter. We keep hearing from members of Congress about the letters they are receiving. Keep 'em coming. Write your senators today.
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Tax Our Health Care? No Way |
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Friday, 20 November 2009 04:14 |
Tax Our Health Care? No Way!
Get the latest news on the Senate bill that taxes health care benefits for middle class and working families. CWA President Larry Cohen has an update and action alert for CWAers, click here to view.
TU Gets the Attention of Management in U.S. and Germany
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CWA Pres. Larry Cohen talks about TU at National Press Club. Panel, from left: "X," a disguised U.S. T-Mobile worker; Prof. Adrienne Eaton, Rutgers; Ado Wilhelm, ver.di; and interpreter Hae-lin Choi.
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U.S. and German workers at T-Mobile sent a message to management on both sides of the Atlantic this week. A group of nine workers, plus CWAers from AT&T Mobility, came to Washington to talk more about TU, the global union for German and U.S. workers at T-Mobile, and to meet with NLRB, Labor Department and other government officials about T-Mobile's assault on workers in the U.S who want a union.
German workers were stunned at how American workers are treated by T-Mobile and the atmosphere of fear and repression that the U.S. workers live under, especially as they work to get a union voice. That message quickly got back to German parent Deutsche Telekom, Ado Wilhelm, a ver.di official and leader of the German worker group, reported.
The U.S. workers almost couldn't believe how T-Mobile in Germany respects workers' rights and supports the right of workers to form a union; that's not what happens in the United States.
At a media briefing at the National Press Club, CWA President Larry Cohen said the goal of TU was to overcome the double-standard of how T-Mobile and parent Deutsche Telekom treat workers in their home countries compared to how U.S. workers are treated. In TU, CWA works with U.S. members and telecom workers and ver.di, which represents workers at T-Mobile and DT, is responsible for overall relations with the company.
"X," a U.S. T-Mobile employee, told reporters how workers are forced to listen to anti-union messages at closed door meetings and intimidated about even taking union leaflets. "X" was fully disguised, because "people who support a union are just fired, gotten rid of. That's why I'm wearing a disguise. That's why I can't even let you hear my voice."
New research by John Logan of San Francisco State and the labor center at Berkeley documents T-Mobile's record of harassment and intimidation of workers who want a union. Since T-Mobile entered the U.S. market in 2001, it has created an atmosphere of fear and repression for workers. Logan outlined his research at a forum attended by the wireless workers, other academics and representatives of the Friedrich Ebert center, Georgetown University's program for labor and the working poor, and American Rights at Work.
The group also attended a CWA organizing institute and the German workers joined AT&T Mobility workers and CWAers in leafleting a T-Mobile operation.
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