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New report exposes cost and quality drawbacks of fixed wireless technologies in delivering broadband to rural communities

CTC Technology & Energy finds cost, sustainability of fiber-to-the-premises networks outweigh fixed wireless amid nationwide broadband buildout.

Google contract workers with Artech win thousands in back pay

The win highlights pay transparency and wage theft issues facing Google temporary, vendor, and contract workers.

AT&T Wireless workers win substantial wage increases, jobs security and privacy commitments in new agreement

The new contract covers 13,000 retail workers, customer service representatives, and technicians in 36 states and the District of Columbia.

Tower Climbers Union/CWA members release emotional new video highlighting fatalities and safety risks, calling on all tower technicians to take action

The video also features Kathy Pierce, a mother who courageously shares the story of her son, Chad, who fell 180 feet to his death after expressing his reservations about the climbing conditions.

New Mexico Supreme Court denies CenturyLink’s attempt to abandon landline customers

The New Mexico Supreme Court affirmed New Mexico Public Regulation Commission’s rejection of CenturyLink’s petition to abandon landline customers.

Biden administration secures affordable internet service commitments from 20 ISPs

The Biden administration has secured commitments from 20 internet service providers to offer plans for $30/month or less to households that are eligible for the FCC's Affordable Connectivity Program.

San Diego County establishes new transparency measures for subcontractors

New ordinances championed by CWA will hold corporations accountable for work done on public land and better protect public safety.

CWA members urge the Dallas City Council to adopt broadband labor standards

CWA's action at Dallas City Hall sent a powerful message that broadband should be expanded in a way that will create more good union jobs and that telecom companies must use highly trained employees, not subcontractors when receiving public funds for broadband build-out.

Tower Climbers Union members hold a town hall to improve standards in the wireless industry

The town hall comes less than two weeks after an overwhelming majority of wireless tower climbers at QualTek in Henderson, NV, filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board for a union election.

Biden administration’s Internet for All initiative will shrink the digital divide, create high quality union jobs

“The BEAD requirements effectively address many of our concerns about the failure of past programs to bring reliable, high speed broadband and good, union jobs to rural and underserved communities,” said Communications Workers of America President Chris Shelton.

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.

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