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Communication Workers Of America
The Communications Workers of America (CWA) is the largest communications and media trade union, labor union in the United States, representing about 700,000 members in both the private and public sectors (also in Canada and Puerto Rico). The union has 27 Local union, locals in Canada via CWA-SCA Canada () representing about 8,000 members. CWA has several affiliated subsidiary labor unions bringing total membership to over 700,000. CWA is headquartered in Washington, DC, and affiliated with the AFL–CIO, the Strategic Organizing Center, the Canadian Labour Congress, and UNI Global Union. History In 1918 telephone operators organized under the Telephone Operators Department of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. While initially successful at organizing, the union was damaged by a 1923 strike and subsequent AT&T Corporation, AT&T lockout. After AT&T installed company-controlled Employees' Committees, the Telephone Operators Department eventually disbanded. The CWA's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trade Union
A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and Employee benefits, benefits, improving Work (human activity), working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers. Trade unions typically fund their head office and legal team functions through regularly imposed fees called ''union dues''. The union representatives in the workforce are usually made up of workplace volunteers who are often appointed by members through internal democratic elections. The trade union, through an elected leadership and bargaining committee, bargains with the employer on behalf of its members, known as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communication Workers Of Canada
The Communication Workers of Canada (CWC) was a trade union, mostly representing telephone workers in Canada. The union originated as the Canadian Communication Workers' Council, a division of the Communications Workers of America, founded in 1967. In 1972, it broke away from its parent union, to become the independent Communication Workers of Canada, under the leadership of Fred Pomeroy. It initially had 4,000 members, mostly from SaskTel, with smaller numbers from Northern Electric and Toronto Telephone House. In 1976, the union was recognized as representing 12,000 Bell Canada technical workers in Ontario and Quebec, while in 1979, 7,400 operators and cafeteria staff at Bell joined, moving from the Communication Union of Canada. In 1983, the union merged with the Canadian District of the International Union of Electrical Workers The International Union of Electrical Workers (IUE) was a North American Trade union, labor union representing workers in the electrical manufactu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Givebacks
Givebacks is a trade union term for the reduction or elimination of previously won benefits. History 1978: The first known publication of the term giveback in relation to organized labor negotiations was in ''The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of ...''. References External links * Trade unions {{trade-union-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 AT&T Strike
The 1983 AT&T strike (August 7 – August 28, 1983) was a nationwide strike of 675,000 telephone workers across the United States that followed a breakdown in contract negotiations with the American telecommunications company AT&T. The strike had a low impact on telephone services due to increased automation in the industry. Scattered incidents of sabotage served to keep strikebreakers in a state of crisis management over the course of the dispute. The unions and AT&T negotiators both made concessions to reach a tentative agreement on August 28. Short of their initial goals, telecommunication workers were promised a 5.5% wage increase during the first year of the resulting contract and a 1.5% increase for the following two years. Background the Communication Workers of America (CWA), the largest of the three unions involved in the strike, represented about 525,000 workers in the telecommunications industry at the time. The CWA previously struck AT&T in 1971. The two othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bell System
The Bell System was a system of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the AT&T Corporation, American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), that dominated the telephone services industry in North America for over 100 years from its creation in 1877 until United States v. AT&T (1982), its antitrust breakup in 1983. The system of companies was often colloquially called Ma Bell (as in "Mother Bell"), as it held a vertical monopoly over telecommunication products and services in most areas of the United States and Canada. At the time of the breakup of the Bell System in the early 1980s, it had assets of $150 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ) and employed over one million people. Beginning in the 1910s, American antitrust regulators had been observing and accusing the Bell System of abusing its monopoly power, and had brought legal action multiple times over the decades. In 1974 the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division, Anti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Bell
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company was a Bell Operating Company serving the Southeastern United States of Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina. It also previously covered the states of Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee until 1968 when those were split off to form South Central Bell. In 1984, it became a subsidiary of BellSouth Corporation in the breakup of the Bell System. History The company was originally known as the Atlanta Telephonic Exchange, having been created to service citizens of Atlanta in 1879, before it was renamed in 1882. Southern Bell also operated in Charleston and other parts of West Virginia, from 1883 until 1917, when the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of West Virginia took over operations there. Landmark sex discrimination case ''Weeks v. Southern Bell'' was an important sex discrimination case in which Lorena Weeks claimed that Southern Bell had violated her rights under the 1964 Civil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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A day is the time period of a full rotation of the Earth with respect to the Sun. On average, this is 24 hours (86,400 seconds). As a day passes at a given location it experiences morning, afternoon, evening, and night. This daily cycle drives circadian rhythms in many organisms, which are vital to many life processes. A collection of sequential days is organized into calendars as dates, almost always into weeks, months and years. A solar calendar organizes dates based on the Sun's annual cycle, giving consistent start dates for the four seasons from year to year. A lunar calendar organizes dates based on the Moon's lunar phase. In common usage, a day starts at midnight, written as 00:00 or 12:00 am in 24- or 12-hour clocks, respectively. Because the time of midnight varies between locations, time zones are set up to facilitate the use of a uniform standard time. Other conventions are sometimes used, for example the Jewish religious calendar counts days from sunset to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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CWA or Cwa may refer to: Organisations * CWA Constructions, a Swiss manufacturer of gondolas and people mover cabins, a division of Doppelmayr Garaventa Group * Central Weather Administration, the weather agency of Taiwan * Catch Wrestling Association, a former German/Austrian professional wrestling promotion * Continental Wrestling Association, another professional wrestling promotion, based in Memphis, Tennessee * Civil Works Administration, a New Deal era agency in the US * College of West Anglia, a college in Norfolk, England * Country Women's Association, Australian Rural Women's Group * Crime Writers' Association, a British organisation * Concerned Women for America, a conservative Christian lobbying group in the US * Cardroom Workers' Amalgamation, a defunct British trade union * Communications Workers of America, a labor union Science and technology * Closed-world assumption, formalisms of knowledge representation * Cognitive work analysis, a framework for describin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mobi (company)
mobi, Inc. is a wireless carrier founded in 2004 and based in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. The company provides service on each of the major islands of Hawaiʻi, as well as on the mainland United States through roaming agreements with other carriers. mobi is an operator member of the GSMA, the Competitive Carriers Association (the CCA), the CTIA, and the Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC). Since 2022, workers at the company are represented by and members of the Communications Workers of America (the CWA). The company reached a network sharing agreement with Verizon Wireless in 2015, with Sprint in 2019, and later announced a nationwide 5G partnership with T-Mobile in 2023, allowing it to continue to operate as a mobile network operator in Hawaiʻi but as a "full" mobile virtual network operator outside of its own footprint. In late 2022, mobi became one of the first wireless carriers in the world to migrate its mobile core to the public cloud, through a partnership wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unionization In The Tech Sector
A tech union is a trade union for tech workers typically employed in high tech or information and communications technology sectors. Due to the evolving nature of technology and work, different government agencies have conflicting definitions for who is a tech worker. Most definitions include computer scientists, people working in IT, telecommunications, media and video gaming. Broader definitions include all workers required for a tech company to operate, including on-site service staff, contractors, and platform economy workers. Global UNI Global Union is a global union federation that has an Information, Communications, Technology and Related Services (ICTS) sector. In 2021, UNI Global Union and international workers of Alphabet, Google's parent company, announced an international union coalition called Alpha Global to assist in organizing the company's global workforce. Australia Professionals Australia is the union that represents Australian tech workers. Czechia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CODE-CWA
The Campaign to Organize Digital Employees or CODE-CWA is a project launched by the Communications Workers of America to unionize tech and video game workers in January 2020. It sprung out of conversations with Game Workers Unite (GWU) and employed at least two full time staff, including GWU co-founder Emma Kinema and veteran SEIU organizer Wes McEnany. In 2022, Jessica Gonzalez joined, a former Activision Blizzard QA tester. CODE-CWA campaigns have been launched at a range of workplaces such as major multinational tech companies, small startups, video game studios, media companies, AAA game publishers, worker co-operatives, and table-top game companies. As of August 2022, CODE-CWA has organized over 3000 union members in various sub-industries of the tech sector across over 25 bargaining units in the last two years of organizing. __TOC__ Campaigns See also * Alphabet Workers Union * Game Workers Unite * Google worker organization * Tech unions in the United St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Of Flight Attendants
The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (commonly known as AFA) is a union representing flight attendants in the United States. As of January 2018, AFA represents 50,000 flight attendants at 20 airlines. Since 2004, AFA has been part of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), an affiliate of AFL–CIO. AFA is also an affiliate of the International Transport Workers' Federation. History Efforts to unionize flight attendants began prior to the 1940s but were often met with resistance, including intimidation and dismissals of organizers. In 1944, Ada Brown and four other flight attendants founded the Airline Stewardess Association (ALSA), later a precursor to the Association of Flight Attendants. Unlike earlier attempts, ALSA faced no opposition from United Airlines, which opted to work with the new union. ALSA was officially established on August 22, 1945.Nielsen, Georgia Panter (1982). ''From sky girl to flight attendant: women and the making of a union''. Ithica, NY: ILR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
