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More Perfect Union highlights Verizon Wireless’ anti-union tactics
29 Apr, 2022
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More Perfect Union highlights Verizon Wireless’ anti-union tactics

A new video from More Perfect Union highlights the challenges that workers at Verizon Wireless stores in Everett and Lynnwood, WA, are facing in the workplace and why they are forming a union with CWA to address them.

More Perfect Union highlights Verizon Wireless’ anti-union tactics

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Wireless tower climbers at Qualtek file for formal union representation with CWA
29 Apr, 2022
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Wireless tower climbers at Qualtek file for formal union representation with CWA

The workers, members of the Tower Climbers Union/CWA, are the first group of tower climbers in the United States who have filed for formal union representation.

Wireless tower climbers at Qualtek file for formal union representation with CWA

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CWA members organize a town hall on expanding broadband access to all communities in Arizona
29 Apr, 2022
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CWA members organize a town hall on expanding broadband access to all communities in Arizona

“We are forty-five minutes or so down the road from the fifth largest metropolitan area in the country and we have very poor broadband,” said Democratic Congressman Tom O'Halleran, speaking to the more than 30 attendees who were enthusiastic about the event and the prospects of broadband expansion in the state. He added, “People in rural America need to be part of the knowledge-based economy.”

CWA members organize a town hall on expanding broadband access to all communities in Arizona

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Minnesota regulators vote to continue monitoring Frontier’s investment plans
28 Apr, 2022
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Minnesota regulators vote to continue monitoring Frontier’s investment plans

Representatives from CWA and IBEW testified in support of the MNPUC’s continued monitoring of Frontier’s investment plans. Frontier recently announced that it would reduce the number of technicians who perform installation and repair functions for customers.

Minnesota regulators vote to continue monitoring Frontier’s investment plans

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CWA urges FTC, DOJ to prioritize labor market impacts as agencies prepare to overhaul corporate merger guidelines
06 Apr, 2022
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CWA urges FTC, DOJ to prioritize labor market impacts as agencies prepare to overhaul corporate merger guidelines

CWA’s comments offered an updated analysis of the merger between T-Mobile and Sprint, which closed in April 2020, as an example of consolidation that allowed the combined company to degrade customer service while eliminating jobs.

CWA urges FTC, DOJ to prioritize labor market impacts as agencies prepare to overhaul corporate merger guidelines

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