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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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

Verizon Wireless workers in Seattle fight for union in NLRB election

Employed across two Verizon stores in Everett and Lynnwood, WA, these workers are going up against labor laws that favor employers and aggressive anti-union tactics by the company.

CWA, New York state legislators call for strong labor standards attached to publicly funded broadband projects

CWA Local 1118 joined NYS Senator Sean Ryan and Assemblymembers Nily Rozic and Amy Paulin on the steps of the New York Capitol in Albany to call for strong labor standards attached to publicly funded broadband projects.

CWA District 1 hosts Build Broadband Better town hall

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Poster of CWA technician on the job
"We cannot cut a blank check and trust the work will get done efficiently. It is on the state to make sure that the significant public funding proposed in the FY2023 budget comes with the right protections attached to ensure high-quality networks to deliver high-speed, reliable broadband, and good jobs in the industry,” said CWA District 1 Vice President Dennis Trainor.

Google Fiber subcontractors celebrate NLRB election win

Workers become first unionized Google Fiber workers and the first recognized bargaining unit of AWU-CWA since union’s 2021 launch.

Labor, public interest groups petition the FCC to preserve consumer protections for interconnected VoIP service by classifying it as “common carrier” telecommunications service

The petition argues that traditional voice service and interconnected VoIP are functionally indistinguishable from each other and both services should be treated as telecommunications services regardless of the technology used.

DISH Network workers in Texas ratify first contract after decade-long fight

Workers at DISH Network (CWA Local 6171) ratified their first contract after a decade-long organizing and bargaining battle, becoming the first group of workers in the country to successfully negotiate a contract at DISH.

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