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Following is a partial list of contracts and strikes that the Communications Workers of America were involved in: [10] [11] [12] An inflatable rat used by the CWA during a 2009 rally against Verizon Verizon members protesting at Occupy Wall Street in October 2011
Nearly all Verizon Wireless workers are nonunionized. [8] Union leaders refused to accept a new contract citing multiple issues, including pensions, healthcare, work assignments, job security, and wages. According to Verizon, employees received $130,000 a year in wages and benefits. Union leaders claimed that the average total was $74,000 a year.
The issue of agency fee payments was a national and serious one. By 1984, about 5 percent of employees at work sites covered by a union contract had opted not to join the union and instead pay an agency fee. [48] In 1987, the same number of workers covered by CWA contracts were agency fee payers. [58]
Following a nearly one month strike across the Southeastern U.S., AT&T and its union, CWA, ratified a new five-year labor contract.
There were recent reports that Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam would be interested in ditching service contracts. However, this isn't likely to be the case, since the major carriers -- Verizon, AT&T ...
CWA Members in Five States Ratify Contract with Frontier Communications Agreement Gives Company Ability to Compete Effectively and Serve Customers MARION, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Members of the ...
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
In 1986 he was called on to serve as assistant to the CWA president and director of organizing, a position he held until his election as executive vice president in August 1998. Throughout his career, Cohen has chaired major contract negotiations in both the public and private sectors, at employers including Verizon and AT&T , as well as ...