News and Views
AT$T Surplus and VTP Announcement!
Today, AT$T declared yet another Surplus and VTP announcement affecting 158 CWA members nationwide. Download the attached PDF file for pertinent information....
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"They Are All American Heroes" 906 Names Added To Memorial Wall
The wall immortalizes the combat-related deaths of fallen military in the country?s MidEast conflicts since the mid- to late 1970s. The memorial was constructed with private donati...
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Hillary and Kerry Bring Me to Tears on Iraq!
.."when she finally talked about the war, Hillary was way worse than just "not very good on Iraq." She was godawful, announcing "there must be a plan that will begin to bring our t...
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Cingular Bucks Anti-Union Trend!
"None of Cingular's rivals are union-friendly, the CWA says. "Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, Sprint, Alltel are the Wal-Marts of this industry," says Jeff Rechenbach, Executive Vice P...
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Highlights of Tentative Agreement With Avaya!
More details will be out early next week. Download highlights of the new tentative agreement with Avaya, in PDF format. ...
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AT$T Launches Rural Satellite Broadband Internet!
To Ed Whitacre, CEO AT$T Inc. Are CWA and/or IBEW members currently performing the installation and maintenance of AT$T Rural Satellite Broadband Internet Service, W...
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CWA District 4 and AT$T Teleholdings, Inc. Reach Agreement On Premise Technician - Appendix F
The Communications Workers of America, District 4 (?CWA? or ?the Union?) and AT&T Teleholdings, Inc. d/b/a AT&T Midwest, Illinois Bell Telephone Company, Indiana Bell Telephone Com...
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Once Again, The Future Ain't What It Used To Be!
The idea that each generation of children will grow up to be better off than the one that preceded it has always been a part of the American dream. But barely a third of adults exp...
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White House Intervenes in AT&T Surveillance Suit
"If the class action moves ahead, this will be new legal turf in the area of privacy law and information protection. The impact on Internet and communications companies is that inf...
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MAY DAY! - ?Mission Accomplished Day?
May 1st, 2006 will be the 3rd Anniversary of the end of "major combat" in Iraq. It was a glorious day when George Bush flew onto the deck of the Abraham Lincoln and was hailed by t...
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