Action Alert! Help Get Two Pro-Worker Bills Signed into Law in New York State
CWAers from Locals 1101, 1109, 1120, 1122, 1133, 1168, and others making trips to Albany earlier this year to speak with legislators to help pass pro-worker bills
The end of 2025 is fast-approaching and we only have a few days left to capitalize on several big legislative victories - earlier this year we helped pass several pieces of pro-worker legislation, and now Governor Hochul must sign them into law!
Protecting telecom work and good union jobs
In 2022, CWA helped pass legislation to protect against the use of One Touch Make Ready where it interferes with our Collective Bargaining Agreements, and earlier this year our former CWA Local 1123 President Chris Ryan, in his first year in the NY State Senate, helped us pass legislation (S.6997 / A.7544) to ensure that the 2022 law is strongly enforced. This bill requires attachers and their contractors to identify their work, creates a mechanism for us to report unsafe make-ready work and violations of Collective Bargaining agreements, and adds serious penalties for companies who violate the law.
Eliminate fees for SUNY graduate workers
Graduate student workers — members of CWA Local 1104 — are the backbone of the SUNY system, teaching a significant percentage of classes and responsible for cutting-edge research, but have been forced to pay mandatory fees back to their employers in an unfair pay-to-work system. In 2022, we won an agreement to phase out broad-based fees for SUNY graduate workers over 4 years, but we want to ensure graduate student workers are protected in perpetuity, so this year we helped pass S.3458/A.5427, legislation to codify that commitment and fully eliminate broad-based mandatory university fees beginning in the 2027-2028 academic year.
Nurses at Cayuga Medical Center Fight for Their Union
Agreement Finalized Between CWA and Verizon on Frontier Merger for Rochester, NY Workers
CWAers Step Up to Ensure Their Communities Won’t Go Hungry in the Wake of Government Cuts