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The Communications Workers of America (CWA) is the largest communications and media labor union in the United States, representing about 700,000 members in both the private and public sectors (also in Canada and Puerto Rico). [ 1 ][ 2 ] The union has 27 locals in Canada via CWA-SCA Canada (French: Syndicat des communications d'Amérique ...
Beck, 487 U.S. 735 (1988), is a decision by the United States Supreme Court which held that, in a union security agreement, unions are authorized by statute to collect from non-members only those fees and dues necessary to perform its duties as a collective bargaining representative. [1] The rights identified by the Court in Communications ...
In 1987, NABET lost a 118-day strike against NBC, losing 200 union-member jobs, accepting a "watered-down contract", costing the union $700,000 a month in strike benefits, and costing strikers an estimated $44 million in lost wages. [2] In 1994, NABET merged with the CWA and changed its name to NABET-CWA.
Braxton Winston. September 8, 2024 at 8:00 AM. Brian Gordon. The author is the Democratic nominee for NC Commissioner of Labor. There is nothing more American than the function of a union. We are ...
The union dissolved prior to the company's acquisition by Fastly in 2022. [9] Voltage Entertainment: August 2020 n/a In August 2020, CODE-CWA organized the first successful strike of 21 contract script writers in the game industry at Voltage Entertainment, which lasted for 21 days and resulted in pay increases and improved transparency. [10]
As of August 2022, CODE-CWA has organized over 3000 union members in various sub-industries of the tech sector across over 25 bargaining units in the last two years of organizing. [ 76 ] Within its first year [ 77 ] the CODE-CWA campaign unionized workers at Glitch , [ 78 ] Blue State Digital , [ 79 ] the Alphabet Workers Union at Alphabet ...
There is a strong anti-union sentiment amongst prospective members, which is common in tech. [1]: 379–380 WashTech chose to affiliate with CWA in November 1998, after considering the National Writers Union (UAW) and IFPTE. The affiliation with CWA brought institutional resources on one hand, but some workers were also concerned union ...
Civil Works Administration workers cleaning and painting the gold dome of the Colorado State Capitol (1934). The Civil Works Administration (CWA) was a short-lived job creation program established by the New Deal during the Great Depression in the United States in order to rapidly create mostly manual-labor jobs for millions of unemployed workers.