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First-of-its-kind report exposes hedge fund activist Elliott Management’s long-term harm to portfolio companies and investors

CWA and SOC Investment Group find Elliott intervention drives underperformance by target companies over three-year period.

Google employees demand back pay for temp workers after alleged wage violations

A petition calls on Google to “immediately pay back all Temps, Vendors and Contractors (TVCs) who have been knowingly underpaid by Google” and to “create an immediate path to permanent employment for temporary workers and end its two-tiered perma-temp system.”

Frontier workers in California vote to authorize a strike

The strike authorization vote gives the union the ability to strike at any moment, if needed.

CWA launches multi-state effort to regulate broadband, close digital divide

Legislation has already been introduced in California, Colorado, and New York, and CWA is in active conversations with policymakers in state houses across the country.

CWA’s year-long fight for improved service, good jobs at Frontier results in the company emerging from bankruptcy with significant commitments to invest in the network, its workers

Frontier’s reorganization plan maintains CWA’s collective bargaining agreements and benefit plans for workers; customers guaranteed $2 billion in capital expenditures and 600,000 new fiber internet connections.

AT&T Quarterly Report shows robust first quarter earnings, continued cuts to jobs and services

AT&T continued to eliminate thousands of jobs during a global health and economic emergency to satisfy Wall Street demands for profits at any cost.

CWA applauds FCC for further investigation of Verizon-TracFone deal and its impact on Lifeline customers

New information requests filed this week for both companies will allow the FCC to better evaluate whether the deal will serve the public interest.

CWA launches state broadband oversight initiatives

The goal is to ensure public safety and network resilience while protecting consumers and closing the digital divide. CWA's efforts complement the Biden administration's American Jobs Plan, which includes $100 billion for expanding broadband coverage and creating good jobs in the industry.

High-speed Internet is infrastructure

"We need to start seeing infrastructure through its effect on the lives of working people in America. What is the foundation today that they need to carve out their place in the middle class? ... That's what infrastructure means in the 21st Century,” said President Joe Biden. “It still depends on roads and bridges, ports and airports, rail and mass transit. But it also depends on having reliable high-speed internet in every home. Because today's high-speed internet is infrastructure.”

Labor, civil rights, and public interest groups call on the FCC to seek more information, Lifeline protections in Verizon-TracFone transaction

If approved, as currently structured, the merger would present significant public internet harms to Lifeline subscribers and competition in the wireless market, impacting the ability of low-income households to access critical communications services.“

Panel explores how hedge fund "activism" boosts short-term stock prices at the expense of workers

CWA Local 6222 Vice President Belinda Aguilar, an AT&T Mobility worker, explained how hedge fund Elliott Management's attack on AT&T has led to more outsourcing of good retail jobs to non-union authorized dealers.

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