CWA Newsletter, Thursday, August 1, 2013 We Did It! It’s taken a decade, but today more than 80...

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August 1, 2013

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We Did It! Senate Conf irms Democratic Majority NLRB

NABET-CWA...Keith Olbermann...Live From Times Square!

Bargaining Update

FCC Should Deny verizon Bid to Replace Wireline

Communications in Areas of NY, NJ

CWA President Arrested During Civil Disobedience for ImmigrantWorkers' Rights

AFL-CIO: All Workers Deserve a Living Wage

A Call for Social and Economic J ustice

CWA Activists Support Fast Food Strikers

Building Our Movement

Union College Scholarships Announced

We Did It! Senate Confirms Democratic Majority NLRB

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CWA updates one of the AFL-CIO's old NLRB signs.

For the first time in a decade, the National Labor Relations Board has fiveSenate-confirmed members.

CWA led this fight, and e-mails and phone calls from thousands of activistsmade all the difference.

Senate Democrats stood strong to force the Republican minority to stop the

obstruction that kept too many of the President's executive nominationswaiting for Senate action for as long as two years. That means that this LaborDay, 80 million private sector workers will continue to have the protections offederal law and the only agency that can enforce workplace rights will be fullyfunctional.

CWA President Larry Cohen pointed out that, "President Obama began hissecond term without a Democratic majority on the NLRB, and for workers thathas meant continued delay in workplace justice, whether to enforce theirbargaining rights or protect them from an employer's illegal action. TheSenate action confirming the NLRB members is a step toward justice for

millions of workers."

The five NLRB members are Democrats Mark Pearce, Nancy Schiffer, andKent Hirozawa, and Republicans Harry J ohnson and Phil Miscimarra.

Groups like The Democracy Initiative, founded by CWA, the Sierra Club,Greenpeace and NAACP, and the Fix the Senate Now coalition are


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continuing to work for Senate confirmation of additional executive branchnominations and judicial nominations that have languished because of thebroken Senate rules. With 60 votes required for the Senate to move forwardon any business, and Republicans determined to abuse the rules to block keynominations, it's no surprise that little is accomplished.

The Democracy Initiative nowincludes more than 60 organizations and alsois working to curb the corrupting influence of corporate money in politics andstop the attack on voter rights.

NABET-CWA...Keith Olbermann...Live From Times Square!

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The ESPN studio in New York City's Times Square.

When Keith Olbermann returns to ESPN2 later this summer with his new andhighly anticipated late night talk show, NABET-CWA members will bemanning Times Square Studios, the site of the program. Disney/ABC, theNABET-CWA Sector and NABET-CWA Local 51016 last week signed anagreement, which provides that the technical crew for the Keith Olbermannshow be covered under the Union's Master Agreement with the ABCTelevision Network. The show will air live Monday through Friday nights at 11p.m. ET.

The agreement covers studio and control room technicians assigned to theshow by ABC, and follows previous agreements between the Network andNABET-CWA for the Washington, DC-produced ESPN shows "Pardon theInterruption", "Around the Horn", and "Highly Questionable." Times SquareStudios is also the venue for the NABET-CWA covered program, "Good
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Morning America" which airs weekday mornings on ABC.

Art Mazzacca, President of NABET-CWA Local 51016 in New York Citystated, "This agreement will provide a tremendous amount of work, 52 weeksout of the year, to our members, and will provide them with the benefits of a

good Union contract." NABET-CWA members recently ratified their nationalABC contract, which runs through March 2017.

"I am very proud that an additional group of NABET-CWA members will beputting their craft talents on display in the highly competitive late nighttelevision market," remarked J im J oyce, President of the NABET-CWASector. "Our members already work on NBC's 'The Tonight Show with J ayLeno', 'Late Night with J immy Fallon', 'Saturday Night Live', and ABC's'Nightline'", J oyce added.

By the way, Keith Olbermann is no stranger to working with NABET-CWA

crews. His MSNBC show, "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" was producedat 30 Rockefeller Center in New York City and was covered by a NABET-CWA agreement with NBC. His ESPN2 show is expected to launch onAugust 26.

Bargaining Update

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The CWA CenturyLink bargaining team has reached a five-year tentative
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agreement with the company that provides employment security for 11,000CWA-represented workers in 13 states.

The proposed agreement provides new limitations on CenturyLink's ability tocontract out and move call center work outside the footprint, and includes a

commitment to return jobs that have been outsourced and offshored. Detailsare being provided to CWA District 7 members and locals, and a ratificationvote will be scheduled.

This proposed agreement covers Legacy Qwest CenturyLink members inthese states: Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Oregon, Washington,Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, andIowa. CenturyLink workers in Montana are represented by the InternationalBrotherhood of Electrical Workers.

Some 60 S&P Guild members, many sporting red Guild T-shirts, came to

watch their co-workers on the bargaining committee, despite management'sbest efforts to deter observers from attending. Guild negotiators on Tuesdayrestated the importance of employment and retirement security. Read morehere.
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Last Saturday, CWA members and supporters throughout West Virginiarallied outside Frontier Communications headquarters in Charleston, W.Va.The crowd included lots of members of Local 2001 and other CWA locals thatare bargaining with Frontier for a new contract. The current agreementcovering 1,600 workers expires Aug. 2. UMWA President Cecil Roberts,CWA District 2-13 Vice-President Edward Mooney and District 1 VP ChrisShelton, elected officials and labor leaders from across the state were amongthe speakers.


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Guild bargaining continues at The Washington Post, where workers' contractexpired on J uly 26. The union had offered to extend the contract for two moreyears, with all terms remaining the same except for pay.

Guild members picketed in front of the Cleveland Plain DealerTuesday tosend a simple message: The Plain Dealerlied to the Guild during bargaining

last year. The very next day, newspaper management eliminated the jobs ofabout 50 journalists, cutting more than a third of an already depletednewsroom staff. Read more here.
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Two months ago, the Chicago Sun-Times fired its entire photography staff.To mark the anniversary, the photojournalists protested outside thenewspaper headquarters Tuesday morning holding enlargements of theirphotographs. "While our reporters are doing the best they can to take photoswith their iPhones and still trying to deliver quality stories, visually, the storyhas taken a big hit," Beth Kramer of the Chicago Newspaper Guild told ABC7News.

IUE-CWA Local 81021's Avis-Budget Negotiating Committee reached atentative five-year agreement with the AB Group (Logan/Headquarters) andAvis (Downtown/Cambridge). The tentative agreement provides annual wageincreases and improvements in wage progression at both companies, among

other gains. The union bargaining committee voted unanimously torecommend the proposed contract; a ratification vote is being scheduled.

FCC Should Deny Verizon Bid to Replace Wireline Communications in Areasof NY, NJ

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CWA urged the Federal Communications Commission to deny Verizon's

application to end wireline communications to residents and businesses insome areas of New York and New J ersey. Read the filing here.

Instead of rebuilding the copper network, Verizon substituted "Voice Link," awireless technology to businesses and residents in parts of Fire Island, N.Y.,and three barriers islands in New J ersey.

Verizon moved ahead without any regulatory oversight and without plans for
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any consumer protections and data collection. Apparently it wants to do moreof the same, because it's seeking a waiver of the FCC's requirements fordiscontinuance of service and notification of customers, CWA said.

The Commission should deny "automatic approval" of Verizon's application,

and instead require Verizon to resubmit its application. Verizon's experimentwith Voice Link can be a "technology trial" under the process the FCC isproposing to review how the transition from wireline to wireless shouldproceed.

Hundreds of local and state elected officials, public safety officials, residentsand small business owners detailed consumer hardship, inadequate andunavailable alternative services and increased costs they face as a result ofVerizon's action.

Here are just a few of the comments filed with the New York State Public

Service Commission:

We are year-round residents on Fire Island and need a hard line to runour business and to monitor our property from the DSL line. After thestorm, I temporarily had the Home Connect system and it workedpoorly. Calls would ring for 30 plus times before I even knew they werecoming through and we had no internet which is essential to run abusiness. Sometimes calls didn't even go through. VOICE LINKDOESNT WORK. Barbara Heller, 7/6/2013

During Hurricane Sandy I lost my power but was able to communicateusing my land line phone. My cell phone had no service. If I waslimited to only wireless service I would not have been able to notify myutility of the outage. If I had needed emergency service I could nothave called for it. Theodore E. Debowy, 6/28/2013

We have service on Fire Island (Saltaire) and due to Super StormSandy we have been required to change our hard line to Verizon VoiceLink and to Hotspot for internet. The Voice Link is marginal and thehotspot is awful. Verizon would prefer not to restore our hard lines butso far the service is spotty and much more expensive than thephone/internet service we had. J oel Dictrow, 7/18/13

CWA President Arrested During Civil Disobedience for Immigrant Workers'Rights


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CWA President Larry Cohen marches with immigration reform, faith,community and union leaders.

Below: Cohen was arrested at a sit-down protest on Capitol Hill.

Activists from labor, immigrant rights, faith, environmental, civil rights andcommunity groups launched "40 Days of Action and Prayer for Families" onimmigration reform with a demonstration and civil disobedience outside theU.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
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Communications Workers of America President Larry Cohen was among theleaders who were arrested at a sit-down protest that focused on the failure ofthe House of Representatives to take action on immigration reform thatincludes a path to citizenship. (Watch the video here.)

The civil disobedience action sent a strong message to House leaders thatthe fight for immigrant families is growing and will continue through Congress'five-week August recess and into the fall until the House produces acomprehensive bill that provides a path to citizenship for 11 millionundocumented immigrants.

Cohen said, "All of us in CWA are proud to stand for citizenship and againstintolerance. I am proud to represent our members today as we demonstratethe broad movement that supports a citizenship path for 11 million of our co-workers and neighbors. We will support this campaign as long as it takeswhether we are sitting in the streets or organizing in our communities."

CWA activists and others will raise this issue at meetings and actions in thehome districts of their members of Congress.

Other groups participating in today's action were: Center for CommunityChange, National Immigration Law Coalition, AFL-CIO, Gamaliel, SEIU,Greenpeace, United Farm Workers, America's Voice, US ACTION and CASAde Maryland.

Reps. Luis Gutierrez, J an Schakowsky and Raul Grijalva came out to supportthe immigration protesters.

AFL-CIO: All Workers Deserve a Living Wage

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The Washington, D.C., City Council stood up for working families by passingthe Large Retailer Accountability Act (LRAA), which requires retailers withmore than $1 billion in annual sales and with stores of more than 75,000square feet to pay workers a living wage package of $12.50 an hour. The

LRAA would lift thousands of working families in Washington, D.C., out ofpoverty and support decent wages across the retail industry. The mayor nowmust sign the LRAA in order for it to become law.

This legislation was approved despite Walmart's threat to cancel the openingof three planned D.C. stores unless the council backed down. Nationwide,Walmart pays workers very low wages and cuts their hours, so much thatmany employees qualify for food stamps, Medicaid and other government
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assistance.

A new report by the Democratic staff of the U.S. House of RepresentativesCommittee on Education and the Workforce, which analyzed governmentassistance and Medicaid data, found that "a single 300-person Walmart

Supercenter store in Wisconsin likely costs taxpayers at least $904,542 peryear and could cost taxpayers up to $1,744,590 per year. That's about$5,815 per employee."

The California legislature also is looking to crack down on Walmart'sdetermination to get the taxpayers to pick up its compensation costs, with aproposed bill that will "levy a fine of up to $6,000 on employers like Wal-Martfor every full-time employee that ends up on the state's Medi-Cal program the California incarnation of Medicaid," Forbes.com reported.

The AFL-CIO Executive Council commended the effort to help lift thousands

of working families in Washington, D.C., out of poverty, and to push the retailindustry nationwide to pay decent wages to workers.

"Large and extremely profitable corporations from outside the Districtattempted to bribe local officials with promises of jobs, while threatening tocancel the planned opening of stores in Washington if the City Council votedfor the LRAA. The City Council's vote was a brave repudiation of theseshoddy threats.

"While Washington, D.C., like communities across America, needs more jobsand retail establishments, it wants good jobs that lift up the community and

build a future for all residents.

"A broad coalition of faith, community and labor organizations came togetherin a multi-year grassroots campaign to win the passage of the LRAA, creatinga model for allies and colleagues nationwide who are facing similar promisesand threats from companies looking to pressure local communities in atroubled economy.

"The AFL-CIO joins the growing number of organizations, faith leaders andDistrict residents calling on D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray to continue setting thestandard for corporate accountability and responsibility by standing with

Washington, D.C.'s working families and signing the Large RetailerAccountability Act."

A Call for Social and Economic J ustice


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The AFL-CIO Executive Council released this statement in response to thetragic shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, with a call for social andeconomic justice for communities of color. The council pledged to take actionaround these issues.

The labor movement gains its strength from our common belief that allpeople have intrinsic value and deserve dignity as their birthright, andthat people of every race, religion, color and sexual orientation deserveaccess to the "American Dream."

This dream of equality, fairness, and opportunity the dream of raising

a family, of having a home, and making a decent living doing work thatmakes you proud is the beacon that attracts aspiring citizens fromaround the world.

That same dream a dream that we all reach for was snatched froma young black high school student named Trayvon Martin last Februarywhen he was shot and killed as he walked home one evening.

This tragedy and the sense of unrealized justice it left behind have beentraumatic for many particularly for those who have struggled to maketheir way in a stagnant and increasingly unequal economy.

Trayvon's death and the subsequent trial have reopened the deepand unresolved wound of racism in our country. Nearly fifty years afterthe March on Washington for J obs and Freedom we have madetremendous progress, but we still have a long way to go. Racismremains deeply rooted in American society. The Supreme Court hasgutted the Voting Rights Act and weakened anti-discrimination laws.Too many Americans are out of work and facing unfair anddiscriminatory barriers as they try to enter the workforce. Racial profilingoccurs far too often, creating distrust in communities at a time when weneed to be coming together.

The Trayvon Martin case is a painful wake-up call that much workremains to be done in the march toward opportunity and justice for all.President Obama recently noted that we all need to do some soul-searching and start a conversation about race in America in familiesand churches and workplaces. As we re-dedicate ourselves to continuethis march, along with our allies, we will heed the President's call tobegin conversations about race with our leadership, members and staff
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to ensure that this tragedy leads to real action and tangible change.

The AFL-CIO will be deliberate in our commitment to advancing a fulldialogue regarding racial disparities and violence in all our communities.

We shall encourage our national affiliates and our state and localbodies to participate fully in a dialogue with our partners and allies andwork diligently to support policies at the federal, state and local levelthat eliminate discrimination, profiling and violence and to denounceStand Your Ground laws that are advanced by the anti-worker, pro-voter suppression American Legislative Exchange Council.

CWA Activists Support Fast Food Strikers

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Activists join STL735 in a one-day strike for higher fast-food wages.

Below: CWA and Missouri AFL-CIO members walk a fast-food worker back toher job.
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In cities across the country, CWA activists stood shoulder-to-shoulder withhundreds of fast-food workers striking to demand a living wage and respect in

their workplaces.

In St. Louis, United Media Guild activists and allies took to the streets tosupport striking workers. Four months ago, the Guild organized eight staffersatSTL 735, a group that supports fast-food workers and their fight for fairwages and the right to form a union without retaliation at more than 15restaurant chains.

In a show of unity the next day, St. Louis faith and union leaders walkedstrikers back to their jobs. It was the continuation of a growing partnershipbetween leaders in the two communities. A year ago, faith-labor breakfasts

began bringing together union presidents and clergy on a regular basis to talkabout shared values. "Labor in the Pulpit" events have helped congregationsto learn about the labor movement. And at last year's Labor Day parade, thefaith community carried a huge banner in support of workers.

"It's not just unions it's a very broad coalition," said Shannon Duffy, abusiness representative at the Guild and labor co-chair for St. Louis J obs withJ ustice. "It's exciting times. If we're going to do anything substantial and makean impact, we have to think about how we build our alliances."

In New York City, CWA supported fast-food workers from McDonald's,

Wendy's, KFC and many other chains around the city who also walked offthe job in a mass protest for higher pay.

And in New J ersey, CWA has focused on an upcoming ballot initiative onNov. 5 to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $8.25. This weekactivists canvassed neighborhoods in Essex County to drum up support.

Building Our Movement
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Members of CWA Local 6300 attend Tuesday's UMWA rally outside the St.Louis headquarters of Arch Coal to protest the company's move to slashretiree and active miners' health care benefits in bankruptcy.

In St. Louis, labor activists show support for each other's battles on Tuesday.UMWA members came out to the fast-food workers strike and strikersattended and spoke at the UMWA rally.
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CWA District 9 StaffRepresentative Sara Steffens organized a Mom's Marchthat joined up with a Student March for Peace in Oakland on J uly 20. TheOakland rallies were part of a "National Day of Action" calling for "Justice ForTrayvon" in over 100 cities nationwide. (Photo by the Mercury News)

Union College Scholarships Announced

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CWA and affiliates offer several scholarship programs for continuingeducation that are open to members, their children and grandchildren. Readmore about the CWA J oseph A. Beirne scholarship here and about IUE-CWAscholarships here.

CWA Joseph A. Beirne First-Year Scholarship Winners for 2013-2014

Taina Quinones, daughter of David Quinones, Local 1101

Nick Miczan, son of J eff Miczan, 1123Michelle Feasel, daughter of Roxanne Feasel, 1036Myles Patrick LaFrance, son of Edward Keough, 1171Feven Laine, daughter of Hadgu Laine,3204Sheresa Alise Rankin, daughter of Heidi Rankin, 3641Madelaine Hill, granddaughter of David Hluch (Retired), 4340Patrick G. Anderson, son of Gerald Anderson, 2107DeVante Parker, grandson of Vera Berry (Retired), 13000
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Giovanni Meza, son of Vanessa Meza, 9509Sarah Elizabeth Schutte, daughter of Mark Schutte, 4009Thomas Mitchell Gatlin, son of William Gatlin, 6171Christian Velasquez, son of J esse Velasquez, J r., 6215Naomi Lam, daughter of Karen Lam, 9415

Tearney Lopez, granddaughter of Cheryl Elfering, 7601

CWA Joseph A. Beirne Second-Year Scholarship Winners for 2013-2014

Kelli Williams, daughter of Claudia Williams, 1084Darius Gonzalez, son of Emilio Gonzalez, 1107Elizabeth Palena, daughter of Ilene Palena, 1039May Chang, daughter of Helen Nan, 1032Anna Fazzini, daughter of Lisa Fazzini, 13000J ohn Hughes, son of J ohn Hughes, 2336Chelsey Robinson, daughter of Becky Robinson, 3310

Nicholas Bernier, son of Raymond Bernier, 3250Dylan Moore, son of J erald Moore, 4671Parker Van Riper, daughter of DeAnne Van Riper, 24008Ethan Pollock, son of Earl Pollock, 6016Michelle Garcia, daughter of Norma Garcia, 6143Kayla Ellis, daughter of Lori Ellis, 7901Angela Brouqua, daughter of Richard Brouqua, 9421Charles Grigsby, grandson of Lynn Ludlow, 39521

IUE-CWA awarded these scholarships for the 2013-2014 academic year:

Amanda Volenski is an IUE-CWA Local 1140 member employed at ElectricMachineryKelsey Alfermann, daughter of Wayne Alfermann, IUE Local 1114Erica Bauer, daughter of Thomas Bauer, 502Alexander Brand, son of Brian Brand, 775Alyssa Brown, daughter of Anjanette Brown, 775Brianna Colbert, daughter of Steven Colbert, 648Alyssa Foley, daughter of Timothy Foley, 162Michael Fox, son of Victor Fox, 901Noah Friedman, son of Mark Friedman, 301Dalton Gennocro, son of Darrin Gennocro , 101

J oe Hines, son of J on Hines, 648Messeret Kebede, daughter of Kebrom Kebede, 201J ustin Krishart, son of Sharon Krishart, 502Meghan Lupole, daughter of Daniel Lupole, 502Chelsey Robinson, daughter of Larry Robinson, retired member, 761J ay Padhiar, son of Suresh Padhair, 75 FWBrennan Pike, son of Wayne Pike, 729


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