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November, 2005
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2005Convention 2005 Resolution #1
Tuesday, November 1st, 2005Throughout our great history, the Communications Workers of America has always been both proud of our traditions and capable of changing to address new challenges. We have continued to thrive through difficult times by this ability to adapt and grow. In the last 20 years, CWA has undergone an incredible transformation. Once almost entirely composed of telephone workers, our union has continued to diversify and grow. The telecommunications industry has become the major component of the information industry and will transform itself to include the media/entertainment industry in the next few years. We are poised to represent this entire industry through mergers with telecom and broadcast unions. Through other organizing victories and mergers, we are now a union that represents workers from virtually every walk of life. Today, in addition to telephone workers, we represent workers in the public sector, newspapers and broadcasting, customer service, airlines, health care, manufacturing and information technology. Click to continue »
Get Mobilized for Dec. 10: International Human Rights Day
Tuesday, November 1st, 2005As part of International Human Rights Day, Dec. 10, the union movement is mobilizing to demand workers are guaranteed a fundamental human right: The freedom to have a union voice on the job. At rallies, town hall meetings, candlelight vigils and teach-ins across the nation, union members and their allies will highlight the obstacles workers face when seeking to join a union at work and showcase strategies for the overcoming those obstacles. Click to continue »
Outsourcing, is your job safe?
Tuesday, November 1st, 2005We tend to think that our jobs are safe because we are within the continental U.S.A. and the laws protect us from non citizens from taking our jobs. Consider the plans on the table by several U.S. Airlines. First, they want to replace airline attendants with attendants from India not only for flights outside of the country but within the U.S. borders as well. They are asking for relief from the bankruptcy court and from congress to allow them to use non resident employees from India. The proposed wages for these employees would be $400.00 per month without benefits. The companies planning this little conspiracy are at this time but not limited to United, Delta and Northwest. Click to continue »
President’s Corner/Final Edition
Tuesday, November 1st, 2005This is the last and in some ways the hardest letter to write to all of you. First I would like to thank you for the opportunity to serve for the last six years as the President of Local 7804. Together with the previous nine years on the executive board it has been a rewarding and learning experience that I never imagined. I must admit that at times it was more than a challenge. It at times was frustrating and at times when we were successful helping an individual or maintaining some part of the contract or in an innovative way negotiating a change in the way the business was being run I believe that we represented the members of the local to the best of our ability. Not that all of you were in agreement with my decisions, I understand that the process dictates that we work for the majority of the membership and therefore we can not possibly please everyone. Click to continue »