http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/ The latest District {gv_district} news. {weblog_language} Copyright {gmt_date format="%Y"} {gmt_date format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%i:%s%Q"} http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/govenor_walkers_disasterous_record/ http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/govenor_walkers_disasterous_record/ Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker knew better than to run his gubernatorial campaign on a platform based on decimiating jobs in Wisconsin. 2012-02-21T16:08:20+00:00 http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/forget_super_pacs._a_modest_proposal_for_legalizing_bribery/ http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/forget_super_pacs._a_modest_proposal_for_legalizing_bribery/ Steven Pearlstein in the Washington Post 2012-02-20T15:50:58+00:00 http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/private_prison_corporation_offers_cash_in_exchange_for_state_prisons/ http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/private_prison_corporation_offers_cash_in_exchange_for_state_prisons/ "As state governments wrestle with massive budget shortfalls, a Wall Street giant is offering a solution: cash in exchange for state property. Prisons, to be exact." 2012-02-15T19:32:26+00:00 http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/top_1_shower_walker_with_cash_but_recall_and_walkergate_loom/ http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/top_1_shower_walker_with_cash_but_recall_and_walkergate_loom/ "If one more dime gets added to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s already-overflowing campaign war chest, it may cause the Governor's Mansion in Madison to collapse under its weight" 2012-02-14T21:42:17+00:00 http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/walker_alec_take_war_on_workers_national/ http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/walker_alec_take_war_on_workers_national/ Two days after Ohio voters overwhelmingly rejected Gov. John Kasich’s anti-labor agenda by 61 percent to 39 percent in a referendum, the nation’s primary proponent of the war on worker rights opened a new front. 2012-02-14T19:59:07+00:00 http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/nurses_flex_their_political_muscle_in_sacramento_and_across_california/ http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/nurses_flex_their_political_muscle_in_sacramento_and_across_california/ An article from the Sacramento Bee 2012-02-08T15:51:12+00:00 http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/the_privatization_trap/ http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/the_privatization_trap/ Mike Konczal: "From schools to prisons, outsourcing government's works typically ends with cronyism, waste and unaccountability" 2012-02-07T21:16:45+00:00 http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/pensions_arent_the_problem_for_state_budgets/ http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/pensions_arent_the_problem_for_state_budgets/ An editorial from AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Lee Saunders: 2012-01-30T21:29:46+00:00 http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/todays_numbers_make_it_clear_that_union_jobs_are_critical_to_a_strong_econo/ http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/todays_numbers_make_it_clear_that_union_jobs_are_critical_to_a_strong_econo/ New numbers from the department of Labor 2012-01-30T21:06:17+00:00 http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/walter_johnson_did_what_needed_to_be_done/ http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/walter_johnson_did_what_needed_to_be_done/ Walter Johnson was everything a labor leader should be – a dedicated, unflinching, champion of working people and their unions. 2012-01-26T15:35:52+00:00 http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/1000000_singatures_collected_to_recall_scott_walker/ http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/1000000_singatures_collected_to_recall_scott_walker/ A major victory for public employees and working people everywhere, one million signatures were collected to recall Gov. Scott Walker. 2012-01-18T20:32:25+00:00 http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/growing_support_for_overturning_citizens_united/ http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/growing_support_for_overturning_citizens_united/ More than 60 organizations have now joined the effort to combat the anti-democratic corporate and special interest spending in our elections made possible by the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. FEC, by supporting a constitutional amendment to overturn that decision. 2012-01-17T16:45:23+00:00 http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/obama_recess_appointments_a_victory_for_workers/ http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/obama_recess_appointments_a_victory_for_workers/ CWA applauded President Obama's decision this week to recess appoint three new members to the National Labor Relations Board, allowing cases involving violations of workers' organizing and bargaining rights to move forward. 2012-01-06T15:44:36+00:00 http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/lawmakers_to_focus_on_childrens_welfare_in_upcoming_session/ http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/lawmakers_to_focus_on_childrens_welfare_in_upcoming_session/ CWA in Missouri is supporting legislation that would help foster care providers get the resources they need. 2011-12-23T15:51:39+00:00 http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/nurses_say_private_equity_firm_starving_massachusetts_hospitals/ http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/nurses_say_private_equity_firm_starving_massachusetts_hospitals/ Nurses sang sour carols today to the private equity firm they say is starving Massachusetts hospitals and pitting workers against each other. 2011-12-21T16:23:41+00:00 http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/99_march_on_k_street_to_take_back_the_capitol_from_the_1/ http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/99_march_on_k_street_to_take_back_the_capitol_from_the_1/ This week Take Back the Capitol brought unemployed people and others to Washington to confront their members of Congress and the lobbyists on "K Street" that they work for, to demand a change. 2011-12-15T15:27:15+00:00 http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/unions_and_immigrants_join_occupy_movements/ http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/unions_and_immigrants_join_occupy_movements/ When Occupy Seattle called its tent camp "Planton Seattle," camp organizers were laying a local claim to a set of tactics used for decades by social movements in Mexico, Central America and the Philippines. And 2011-12-08T21:26:09+00:00 http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/why_we_must_take_back_the_capitol/ http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/why_we_must_take_back_the_capitol/ From Isaiah Poole at CAF 2011-12-07T20:55:49+00:00 http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/the_winter_of_our_occupation/ http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/the_winter_of_our_occupation/ A new post by Micheal Moore on the Occupy movement 2011-12-06T20:31:39+00:00 http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/how_occupy_stopped_the_supercommittee/ http://cwa-union.org/sites/cwapublic/index.php/news/entry/how_occupy_stopped_the_supercommittee/ Since the supercommittee's real agenda was to bypass Congress and cut social security, let's give thanks for the 99% 2011-12-05T20:08:47+00:00