CWA Newsletter, Thursday, August 8, 2013

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August 8, 2013

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No Town Hall Call in August

Big Changes at Major News Dailies

Bargaining Update

March on Washington for J obs and Freedom

Immigration Reform Fight Moves into August Recess

Fair Trade, Not Free Trade

CWA Locals J oin Chevron Protest at California Refinery

2 CWA Activists J oin Pride at Work Board of Directors

'Press 1 for America' Call Center J obs Bill Introduced in Congress

No Town Hall Call in August

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There won't be a CWA telephone town hall call in August, but be sure to keepup with the latest atwww.cwa-union.org. Tune in Sept. 19 for the next townhall call.

Big Changes at Major News Dailies

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Washington Post

The purchase of the Washington Post by Amazon.com founder J eff Bezos isan opportunity to build a new model for profitable journalism, TNG-CWA said.
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"This is potentially an entirely new era for the Post," TNG-CWA PresidentBernie Lunzer said. "Our members have made the Post one of America'smost engaging, high-quality and vital news products, and we see the sale asan opportunity to build on that and create a model for profitable journalism."

TNG-CWA represents nearly 900 editorial and commercial workers at thePost, and is in the process of bargaining a new contract. Mailers andhandlers at the newspaper are members of the CWA Printing, Publishing andMedia Workers Sector.

"We are eager to work with the new management to continue the proudtraditions of quality journalism," said TNG-CWA Local 32031 ExecutiveDirector Cet Parks. "We expect Mr. Bezos to respect the status of all unionsat the paper."

Bezos has said there will be no immediate change in management,

operations, or staff. Bargaining for a new contract will continue.

Boston Globe

The New York Times Co. has soldThe Boston Globe to J ohn W. Henry,principal owner of the Boston RedSox. TNG-CWA Local 31245 represents500 members at the newspaper.

Bargaining Update

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Tentative Agreement Reached at US Airways

CWA and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters reached a tentativeagreement covering 6,500 passenger service employees at US Airways.Read more about the agreement here.

The tentative agreement provides for wage increases at every step for allpassenger service employees and includes a ratification bonus. It also

provides critical job security protections, an important issue for workers as theUS Airways-American Airlines merger goes forward.

Agents from US Airways and American Airlines have launched a jointcampaign to make certain they have a strong union voice at the mergedairline.
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strong, united group that will continue to make advances for all agents as theUS Airways-American Airlines merger proceeds," said CWA Chief of StaffRon Collins.

The IBT and CWA together represent the reservations and airport agents.

Balloting information will be sent out August 14, with telephone and electronicballots tabulated on August 28.

Frontier Communications

CWA local union presidents representing 1,600 CWAers at FrontierCommunications in West Virginia agreed to extend the contract through Oct.12, 2013 while negotiations continue. The contract was to expire on Aug. 2.

On last week's town hall call, the CWA bargaining team said it was committed

to getting a quality contract at Frontier: "Frontier made a commitment to usand to the state of West Virginia to keep good jobs in our state and we'regoing to hold the company to that pledge," the committee said. "Thisbargaining committee will not give up and will fight for our members' futures."

"We'll all keep working to get a fair contract: our bargaining committee,elected officials who are standing with us, community groups and everyonewho has a stake in this," said CWA District 2-13 Vice President Ed Mooney.

OFS

Bargaining continues with OFS Fiber Optics for a new contract coveringabout 280 CWA members at plants in Sturbridge, Mass., and Atlanta, Ga.CWA's Telecommunications and Technologies bargaining team resumednegotiations after an earlier tentative agreement was turned down bymembers. OFS workers manufacture high performance fibers for video, voiceand data transmission.

EFE Guild members hold hands during mobilization in Miami.

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After 20 months of tough bargaining, Guild negotiators announced a tentativeagreement with EFE News Services that provides a two-year period of unpaidfurloughs, followed by the first wage increase for the company's U.S. staffsince 2008.

Guild leadership has approved the tentative pact, which now goes tomembers for a ratification vote. Read more here.

Bulletin in the Philadelphia AP bureau.

AP

The News Media Guild and the Associated Press continue negotiations on anew contract. Bargainers discussed a wide range of issues includingphotographers, mileage minimums, workloads and Invision. Read more here.

AT&T Internet

AT&T Internet Service workers, who have been working without a contract

since July 14, rally in Dallas on Tuesday.

Below: CWA Local 6508 members held an informational picket in Little Rock,Arkansas.
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Bargaining continues for a new contract covering 3,000 technicians and callcenter workers in 14 states at AT&T Internet. Members of CWA Local 6215rallied outside AT&T headquarters in Dallas, calling on the company tobargain a fair contract for Internet workers. AT&T recently bought the namingrights for the Dallas Cowboys football stadium. CWA District 6 Vice PresidentClaude Cummings joined the rally, and said AT&T was put on notice thatworkers would rally until a fair contract is reached.

CWA Local 9413 Vice President Mayette Arii on "Pack Your Bags" day.

CWA Local 4900 tried a new approach to communicating with members aftermanagement complained about workers posting union information in theircubicles. Check out the floating leaflets (bottom right).

March on Washington for J obs and Freedom

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demand civil liberty and economic opportunity for all. The march was thelargest demonstration for jobs and freedom in the country's history, and it wasthere that Martin Luther King, J r. delivered his celebrated "I Have a Dream"speech.

On Aug. 24, civil rights, labor and social justice organizations will be rallyingonce again on the National Mall to honor the historic demonstration. We willbe gathering together not as a commemoration, but as a continuation and acall to action. Despite the progress America has made, we still have a longway to go to fulfill the goals of the original march.

Learn more here.

Will you join us?

Immigration Reform

FightMoves intoAugust Recess

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After a sit-in at GOP Rep. Kevin McCarthys office, CWAers left signs callingon the congressman to "keep your promise."

Below: CCI member talks to GOP Rep. Tom Latham.
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Immigration reform advocates aren't taking an August recess. Across thecountry, CWA activists and partners are flooding town halls, meeting withtheir members of Congress and holding rallies to support a comprehensivebill with a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrations.

Even before Congress left for its August recess, CWAers and other activistsheld a sit-in at Rep. Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) office. The demonstratorsstayed about four hours, then left some reminders for the congressman andhis staff. Posters called on McCarthy to "keep your promise" and asked"where's our meeting." Rob England of CWA Local 9416 said more actionsare planned for McCarthy's district office next week.

Also in California, more than 150 actions are in the works targeting HouseRepublican leaders and members, including Majority Whip McCarthy andReps. Paul Cook, J eff Denham, Buck McKeon, Gary Miller and Darrell Issa.At the "Countdown to Citizenship" campaign launch in Los Angeles onTuesday, AFL-CIO's Maria Elena Durazo joined Mayor Eric Garcetti andmore than 100 community organizations and leaders from the faith, labor,LGBT, student, civic engagement, business, and immigrant rights sectors tosay, "Let us have a vote for immigration reform."

In Iowa, more than 50 members of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvementpacked a meeting with Rep. Tom Latham (R-IA) to share their stories anddemand action on the pathway to citizenship. "After I left the police force inMexico, I was assaulted because I'd been a cop. That's no way for my familyto live, in such violence," said Constantino Morales, a CCI member. "Idecided to come here. Soon after, ICE came for me at work and I'm indeportation proceedings now. If I'm sent back, I will face more violence andcould lose my life," he told Latham. But when asked if he supported apathway to citizenship, Latham refused.

In Illinois, GOP Rep. Aaron Schock told his constituents, "I think that at some
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haven't committed any violations of laws. They have been here for aprovisionary period, then they can apply for citizenship."

In Texas, almost 50 immigration reform activists from TexasRITA and othergroups gathered at Rep. Blake Farenthold's district office to deliver 10,000

petitions asking him to support immigration reform and a path to citizenship.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's immigration reform group, FWD.us, isbombarding TV airwaves with a six-figure ad buy aimed at on-the-fencemembers of Congress over the recess. Watch it here.

A coalition of 39 House Democrats has sent a letter to House Speaker JohnBoehner telling the Republican leader to introduce a comprehensiveimmigration reform bill with a pathway to citizenship by September 30, 2013or the leading group of moderates in the House of Representatives willadvance its own bill to fix to the nation's broken immigration system. The New

Democrat Coalition is a group of 53 moderate, pro-growth House Membersthat's been around since 1997.

"We are frustrated that there was not a bipartisan immigration reform billintroduced prior to the August recess," the letter said, citing broad bipartisansupport for comprehensive immigration reform legislation.

"From the beginning of this Congress, the New Democrats and I have beenoptimistic that we can work with our colleagues on both sides of the aisle toget immigration reform done this year," said New Dem Immigration TaskForce Co-Chair Rep. J oaquin Castro. (D-TX) "This is an issue that

transcends party, region, industry and affects the totality of the Americanfamily. Americans across the nation have spoken up because they know thatfixing our broken immigration system not only means that there will be moreavenues for innovators to come to our shores, but also that the millions ofpeople coming out of the shadows will boost our economy as consumers andbusiness owners."

Read the letter here.

Fair Trade, Not Free Trade

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Get ready: CWA activists and members of TakeAction Minnesota will bemarching and rallying for Fair Trade not Free Trade agreements.
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Trans-Pacific Partnership, a super treaty that could potentially jeopardize thesovereignty of nations by giving more power to large corporations. CWAPresident Larry Cohen will be speaking about how the agreement threatensto destroy jobs, wages, consumer protections, the environment and more.

Right now, the deal is being discussed behind closed doors. Rep. AlanGrayson (D-Fla.) was recently one of the few members of Congress to havelimited access to the negotiation documents. While he wasn't allowed to talkabout the texts in detail, the news wasn't good.

"Having seen what I've seen, I would characterize this as a gross abrogationof American sovereignty," Grayson told The Huffington Post. "And I wouldfurther characterize it as a punch in the face to the middle class of America."

It's time to speak out!Register to attend the rally here.

CWA Locals J oin Chevron Protest at California Refinery

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Members of CWA Local 9412, UPTE-CWA 9119, and Pacific Media WorkersGuild 39521 were a big part of the labor contingent at Aug. 3 march andprotest in Richmond, CA, against Chevron, ongoing safety issues at theRichmond refinery, and the potential for more global warming if the company

starts to process tar sands oil that would come from the XL pipeline.

The protest marked the one-year anniversary of an explosion at a Chevronrefinery in Richmond, Calif., which sent 15,000 area residents to localhospitals.

Nearly 3,000 protesters joined the demonstration and 210 were arrested
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community, and religious groups endorsed the action, including CWApartners Common Cause, J obs with J ustice, Alliance of Californians forCommunity Empowerment and more.

J ust after last year's explosion, the UC Berkeley Labor and Occupational

Health Program helped create a coalition on refinery safety with labor andcommunity activists.

2 CWA Activists J oin Pride at Work Board of Directors

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CWA Local President 6355 Bradley Harmon and Local 6201 Legislative ChairFelipe Gutierrez will be representing CWA on Pride at Work's board of

directors.

Pride at Work is a nonprofit organization and an officially recognizedconstituency group of the AFL-CIO working to build alliances between thelabor movement and the LGBT community for social and economic justice.

With Harmon and Gutierrez's appointments, the board now has membershailing from regions of the country where the anti-worker forces haveconcentrated their efforts to undermine organized labor. Harmon andGutierrez also come from states Missouri and Texas that have yet to passlegislation to prohibit employment discrimination against LGBT workers and

passed constitutional amendments enshrining marriage discrimination intolaw.

J ust last month, Harmon and Gutierrez participated in their first meeting inVancouver, Washington.

Other CWA members on the board include CWA Legislative Director ShaneLarson, who serves as Pride at Work's co-president; TNG-CWA's GabeGonzlez, who serves as treasurer; TNG-CWA's Tiffany Heath, who servesas secretary; AFA-CWA Government Affairs Director Stephen Schembs, whorepresents AFA on the board; AFA-CWA's Stan Kiino, who represents the

San Francisco chapter on the board; and retired TNG-CWA member DonnaCartwright, who serves as the diversity seat representative.

"This is just a continuation of CWA's long history, involvement and leadershipin Pride at Work," said Larson. "From its founding almost 20 years ago untiltoday, CWA has recognized the value of union contracts to LGBT workers."

'Press 1 for America' Call Center J obs Bill Introduced in Congress
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U.S. Rep. Tim Bishop (D-NY) and a bi-partisan group of legislatorsintroduced the "U.S. Call Center and Worker Protection Act of 2013" (H.R.2909), in Congress just before the start of the August recess.

"Press 1 For America," a part of the bill, requires call center employees toidentify the country from which they are taking the call, and if that's outsidethe United States, offer consumers the opportunity to be transferred back to aU.S. facility. The bill bars federal grants, loans and subsidies to companiesthat send call center jobs offshore for three years, and requires that a list ofcompanies that offshore be made available to the public. Firms that returnjobs to the United States from overseas would be taken off that list.

"Companies that choose to outsource American call center jobs overseasshould forfeit their eligibility for federal financial assistance it's that simple,"Bishop said.

In the last Congress, a similar bill had more than 130 bi-partisan co-sponsorsin the House of Representatives, though the Republican majority leadershipdeclined to allow a vote on the measure.

"Consumers should have choice in supporting companies that keep U.S. callcenter jobs. There should be no more handouts from taxpayers for those who

choose not to keep good jobs here at home," said CWA Chief of Staff RonCollins.

Collins noted that in 2012, T-Mobile USA closed seven call centers in sixstates, affecting 3,300 working Americans and their communities, while at thesame time increasing the number of service calls going to facilities in CentralAmerica and the Philippines.

State legislative efforts also have been building over the past year with billsbeing introduced in Florida, Arizona, New Mexico, New York and New J ersey,among other states.

The national bill also is sponsored by Democrats Mike Michaud (ME-2) andGene Green (TX-29), along with Republicans David McKinley (WVA-1),Michael Grimm (NY-11) and Chris Gibson (NY-19).
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