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Big Legislative Win by CWAers in New Jersey

For the last several weeks, CWA members in New Jersey have been going all out to fight for the Responsible Collective Negotiations Act to strengthen workers' bargaining rights.

Bargaining Update - Frontier Communications

After voting to authorize a strike if necessary late last year and working without contracts, CWA members at Frontier Communications have ramped up their mobilization efforts to fight for new agreements by January 15th or Frontier will face a strike.

Local 1104-GSEU Members Win In Fight to End Grad Worker Fees

On January 3rd SUNY-Binghamton announced that as of Spring 2022, all full-time, fully tuition-supported PhD student workers at SUNY-Binghamton will no longer be required to pay broad-based fees.

CWA Bargains New Agreement on Verizon Surplus

View the details of the agreement reached between CWA, IBEW and Verizon Management earlier this year

House Votes to Ban Verizon Tax Loophole

Thanks to CWA's successful Verizon Strategic Industry Fund campaign, the House of Representatives voted to close the Reverse Morris Trust tax loophole that has allowed Verizon and other companies to spin off parts of their operations tax-free.

Positive Changes in New Health Care Law

The changes to health care passed by Congress will have positive effects on all Americans. Read on to find out how you will benefit from the new law.

Unions Push Back on Health Care Excise Tax

CWA leadership, locals and our members have led the opposition to the excise tax. From the start, CWA leaders made it clear that a tax on workers' health care was the wrong way to finance health care reform. We fought against this plan in the Senate and supported our friends in the House of Representatives who outlined better ways to finance health care reform. We supported Connecticut House Representative Joe Courtney in obtaining 190 signatures on a letter opposing the excise tax.

CWA Releases Summary of Studies Challenging Health Tax

CWA released yesterday summaries of 18 studies, reports and analyses challenging the tax on high-cost health plans included in the Senate's health reform bill. The reports come from medical journals, from benefits consultants who work for employers, and from health policy think tanks.