• By: Steve Tisza
• January 22, 2006

The percentage of union members in the U.S. work force held steady last year, at least temporarily halting years of steady decline, according to figures released by the Bureau of L...

• By: Steve Tisza
• January 9, 2006

Pension advocates said they were dismayed that rich and powerful companies like I.B.M. and Verizon would abandon traditional pensions. "With Verizon, we're talking about a company ...

• By: Steve Tisza
• January 6, 2006

Beginning in 2008, IBM will stop contributing to its traditional U.S. pension plan and a later retirement plan now held by 117,000 IBM employees. Instead, IBM says it intends to in...

• By: Steve Tisza
• January 5, 2006

John Sweeney and his associates on the Executive Council have decided unilaterally that the war in Iraq will not be an issue in the AFL-CIO's campaign in the 2006 elections. Furthe...

• By: Steve Tisza
• December 24, 2005

Download Christmas greeting from Local 4250 in PDF format....

• By: Steve Tisza
• December 20, 2005

"There is a mistake in the Final Bargaining Report." Download corection from C&T Office in PDF format....

• By: Steve Tisza
• December 18, 2005

Download "new" Job Security and Successorship Letters in the 2005 CWA-AT$T Tentative Agreement in PDF format....

• By: Steve Tisza
• December 18, 2005

"Your Bargaining Committee is pleased to report that this agreement achieves the objectives set by the CWA's rank-and-file Bargaining Council and the CWA Executive Board and unanim...

• By: Steve Tisza
• December 12, 2005

"These are some of the improvements in the Articles in the New Contract." Download Bargaining Report#22-Part 2, in PDF format....

• By: Steve Tisza
• December 11, 2005

The CWA, IBEW and AT$T Corp. reached a tentative agreement tonight on a new contract. The CWA Bargaining Team feels that a lot of progress was made on the key issues facing our mem...