News and Views
9/05/03- CWA & IBEW Agree to 5-Year Contract With Verizon!
"This settlement achieves our major goals of protecting our members' job security and the health care benefits of both active and retired employees," said Morty Bahr, president of ...
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9/04/03- CWA Presidential Election Survey!
The CWA Presidential Election Survey will be available for your participation beginning Monday, September 8. To participate, you must subscribe to the CWA on-line e-politics newsle...
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9/03/03- Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist! - Part Three
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9/03/03- Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist! -Part One
The biggest bubble in the history of the modern business world was not the dot-com bubble, but the telecom bubble. The result being 600,000 jobs eventually evaporating into thin ai...
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9/03/03- Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist! - Part Two
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9/03/03- TAKE ACTION Against Bush Overtime Pay Cuts!
The Senate debate on President Bush's overtime pay cuts will begin this week with a vote expected any day. This is the most important chance we've had to block the overtime pay cut...
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8/29/03- Labor Day 2003
All across America, workers are speaking out about the union difference. The Officers, Executive Board and Members of CWA Local 4250 wish all a happy and safe Labor Day. Enjoy YOUR...
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8/28/03- CONGRATULATIONS Ron Kastner, President/Business Manager IBEW Local 21!
Ronald E. Kastner, President/Business Manager of IBEW Local 21 was re-elected to a new three-year term on August 27, 2003. On behalf of the Officers, Executive Board and membershi...
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8/22/03- F.C.C. Discloses New Rules for Telecom Industry!
The rules elaborate on a contentious F.C.C. decision six months ago that local telephone companies generally must share older equipment for voice transmission at wholesale rates bu...
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8/21/03- A Price Too High! - by Bob Herbert
How long is it going to take for us to recognize that the war we so foolishly started in Iraq is a fiasco- tragic, deeply dehumanizing and ultimately unwinnable? How much time and ...
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