CWA Newsletter, February 7, 2013

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February 7, 2013

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Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Family and Medical LeaveAct

T-Mobile Orders Workers to Carry Out Unethical Sales Join CWA at the Largest U.S. Climate Rally Ever Jobs Not Cuts! Organizing Update Bargaining Update World Union Leader Puts Global Spotlight on T-Mobile Trans-Pacific Partnership Will Make Offshoring Even Worse A Civil Right to Organize Violence Against Women Act Returns to the Senate Long Lines Disenfranchised 2012 Voters Apply for Morton Bahr Online Learning Scholarship Make Sure Your Voice is Heard as CWA Builds a Movement for

Justice and Democracy

Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act

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AFA-CWA Applauds Completion of Rule Covering Airline Crews

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave

Act. Since 1993, working women and men have used the law to cope withillness, tend to sick family members and care for a new child 100 milliontimes.

"The Family and Medical Leave Act was an important step forward inhelping working Americans juggle the dual demands of work and family,"said CWA President Larry Cohen. "It recognized that workers need time forfamily responsibilities, whether it's to care for a new baby, an ailing parent
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or other concerns."

Labor unions, women's rights groups and grassroots organizations lobbiedfor nearly 10 years to win these 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave.

But it took more than another decade for the nation's Flight Attendants tohave that same right. Under the original law, employees had to work 1,250hours in the previous 12 months to qualify. A typical full-time FlightAttendant logs about 70 to 80 hours in the air each month, making it verydifficult for many Flight Attendants to satisfy that threshold.

In 2009, President Barack Obama corrected that by signing into law theAirline Flight Crew Technical Corrections Act. Then just this week, theLabor Department provided the guidance needed to establish eligibilityrequirements specifically for airline flight crewmembers.

"It is fitting that as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the historiclegislation that has helped millions of workers care for themselves and theirloved ones without jeopardizing their jobs, the Department of Laborannounces the final rule that provides the same peace of mind andprotections to Flight Attendants and our families," said AFA-CWA PresidentVeda Shook. "AFA has worked tirelessly to ensure that flight crews aretreated fairly and qualify for essential FMLA benefits. While working withCongress to implement an effective solution, AFA has been negotiatingFlight Attendant contracts to include vital FMLA language. From now on,the unintended oversight of the original FMLA legislation is corrected andoff the bargaining table for good."

For CWA, the FMLA has allowed workers to nurse and care for newborns.One member employed as a cable splicer was able to have the kneesurgery he needed to be able to continue working in manholes. Anothertelecom worker was able to take time off work to take care of a son withasthma, an elderly grandmother with Alzheimer's and her own severehealth problems.

Still, more needs to be done. Businesses with fewer than 50 employees areexempt from the law. Because the eligibility requirements, the FMLA onlycovers about half of the workforce, leaving more than 75 million workers

with zero protections.

Out of 178 countries, the United States is just one of three that does notguarantee paid maternity leave.

A Labor Department study found that 78 percent of workers who qualifiedfor and needed FMLA leave didn't take it because they couldn't afford to gowithout a paycheck.
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The good news is that a recent survey commissioned by the NationalPartnership for Women and Families found bipartisan support for new laws"ensuring workers have the right to earn paid sick days creating a system offamily and medical leave insurance." Of the Democrats and Republicanspolled, 86 percent considered it important, and 63 percent called it very

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T-Mobile Orders Workers to Carry Out Unethical Sales

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Just last month, T-Mobile USA carried out a mass firing in Brooklyn,terminating 24 retail store workers and six managers working at about 20stores.

The workers were fired over contradictory sales policies and supervisors'tactics that were set up to generate more store revenue. But the workersgot caught in the middle.

Employees in the T-Mobile sales operations were required to meet quotas,as were their supervisors. Employees who didn't meet their quotas wouldbe terminated.

To meet their store quotas, managers told employees to bundle pre-paidphone sales and activation kits. In fact, workers were warned that if theydidn't bundle those two products, their sales numbers would decline and

they would be subject to discipline. Bundling sometimes benefitscustomers, because it provides them with specific services that they need.In this case, however, bundling of the pre-paid phone with an unnecessaryactivation kit was pure fraud.

Workers, who had raised concerns that the practice was unethical andfraudulent because it required customers to purchase unnecessaryactivation kits, first were ignored. A group email sent by employeesobjecting to the practice also was disregarded.

But workers faced real repercussions when T-Mobile USA management

finally decided that the bundling was a fraud. Some workers who followedmanagement orders to bundle were fired, and others who followed thosesame orders were promoted to management.

The T-Mobile workers, like most U.S. employees without a union, areconsidered at-will employees and don't have the right to claim wrongfuldischarge. With a collective bargaining agreement, workers who knew that
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fraud was ongoing would have been heard. CWA is calling for all theworkers to be reinstated.

Join CWA at the Largest U.S. Climate Rally Ever

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Crippling drought. Devastating wildfires. Superstorm Sandy. Climatechange is a real threat.

On Sunday, Feb. 17, CWA President Larry Cohen and activists fromaround the country will be standing up for workers' and environmentalrights. It's time to join with thousands of people to send a clear message toour elected officials in Washington: Protect the future of our children andthe entire planet. We can't wait we need action now.

What: The largest climate rally in U.S. history.

When: Feb. 17, 2013. CWA will meet at 11:15 a.m.; the official eventends at 4:00 p.m.

Where: CWA will meet at the main entrance to the National Museum ofAmerican History on Constitution Avenue NW between 14th and15th Street. The closest subway station is Federal Triangle.

Please register and find out about transportation at

http://forwardonclimate.org.

Jobs Not Cuts!

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Some in Congress want to make deep cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, SocialSecurity and other vital programs, while protecting tax breaks formillionaires and wealthy corporations.

On Feb. 12, CWA will be joining AFGE, AFSCME and workers from acrossthe country to tell Congress to stop the attacks on working families and tostart making everyone pay their fair share. Our aim is to protect Medicare,Medicaid and Social Security. Workers want lawmakers to end taxloopholes for Wall Street and the richest 2 percent. We're demanding thatCongress stop cuts to education, law enforcement, food safety and otherimportant services. We believe the attacks on government workers must
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stop.

What: Capitol Hill rally.

When: Tuesday, Feb. 12 at noon.

Where: CWA will be meeting in the lobby of CWA Headquarters (5013rd St. NW, Washington, DC) before walking to Upper Senate Park(corner of Constitution Ave. and Delaware Ave. NE).

Organizing Update

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Workers from C&C Air Conditioning Co. in Puerto Rico voted to joinCWA Local 3010.

Workers at the Warren County, Mississippi, Head Start beat back adecertification drive by a 53-19 vote. Contract negotiations arecontinuing.

Bargaining Update

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CWA District 6 has reached a new tentative agreement with AT&TSouthwest, covering 22,000 workers in Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri,Kansas and Arkansas. The ratification vote will be concluded byFeb. 27.

The contract covering 22,000 AT&T Mobility workers in 36 states

and the District of Columbia expires this weekend on Feb. 9. Keepup with the latest here.

The contract covering 1,300 workers at Frontier Communications inOhio, Indiana, Wisconsin and Illinois expires Feb. 9. Bargaining
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givebacks in pensions, health care, time off and other areas.

Hawaiian Airlines Flight Attendants reached a tentative agreement

with management on contract terms that would extend to 16 newAirbus A321neo aircraft on order. More than 1,400 Flight Attendantswill vote Feb. 8-27.

About 75 Newspaper Guild members rallied outside theheadquarters of Bloomberg-BNA, calling for a fair contract. This isthe first negotiation since Bloomberg bought BNA, a legalinformation provider, for nearly $990 million in 2011.

World Union Leader Puts Global Spotlight on T-Mobile

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Sharan Burrow, leader of the global union movement, at an earlierconference in Washington, D.C.

Sharan Burrow, leader of the world's largest union organization, theInternational Trade Union Confederation, will be in Washington, D.C., andCharleston, S.C., next week, to push forward on the global campaign for

justice for T-Mobile USA workers.

The ITUC gives voice to 174 million workers in 156 countries.

In Washington, Burrow will raise the issue of workers' rights at her meetingsat the IMF and World Bank, and at a press briefing at the AFL-CIO. Shealso will discuss the ITUC's campaign to focus global attention on thedouble standard that affects T-Mobile workers, who in Germany havebargaining rights, union representation and are treated with respect, but inthe U.S., face harassment and intimidation and the loss of their jobs.

On Feb. 16 in Charleston, Burrow, along with CWA President Larry Cohen,will participate in a workers' forum with T-Mobile workers from the


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Charleston call center and other participants.

Trans-Pacific Partnership Will Make Offshoring Even Worse

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A new analysis by the Pennsylvania Fair Trade Coalition has found thatPennsylvania workers were hit harder by offshoring than workers in almostevery other state.

The review of Labor Department data found that in 2012, Pennsylvania lost

the fourth highest number of jobs of all states, and that even worse, hadlost the second highest number of jobs since NAFTA took effect in 1994.

The findings were made public at a news teleconference.

"Trade agreements that ship Pennsylvania jobs overseas have beenbleeding our communities year after year," said CWA District 2-13 VicePresident Ed Mooney. "T-Mobile recently shut down a call center inAllentown. That work is being done in the Philippines and Mexico. Ourgovernment should not be creating a system that encourages this kind ofbehavior, but that's exactly what's happening in the Trans-Pacific

Partnership negotiations."

The Labor Department certified that 4,539 Pennsylvania jobs were lost dueto offshoring or displacement by imports in 2012. Since 1994, that total is163,503.

Only North Carolina experienced a greater overall job loss from 1994, with
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200,732 trade-related job losses certified by the Labor Department.

"Far too many of Pennsylvania's families have already suffered throughhaving their livelihoods shipped overseas as a result of foolish policies likeNAFTA and trade preferences for China," said Amy Conahan, director of

the Pennsylvania Fair Trade Coalition. "TPP would offshore even morePennsylvania jobs by forcing local employers to compete with those thatexploit sweatshop working conditions in countries like Vietnam andMalaysia, where workers are paid just a pittance of what Chinesesweatshop workers earn."

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is currently being negotiated among theUnited States, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, NewZealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. It would become the largest freetrade agreement in U.S. history, and could grow even bigger since it isbeing negotiated to allow any country in the Asia-Pacific region to join.

Fifteen major rounds of TPP negotiations have been completed, but U.S.negotiators still refuse to tell the American public what they've beenproposing, while hundreds of corporate lobbyists have full access to thenegotiating texts. CWA and our partners like the Pennsylvania Fair TradeCoalition oppose this kind of back-room deal making.

A Civil Right to Organize

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Union and progressive activists honor Dr. Martin Luther King's commitmentto workers' rights.
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"Our democracy is corrupted," wroteCWA President Larry Cohen in thelatest issue of the Poverty & RaceResearch Action Council'snewsletter. "Money is not speech.

Corporations are not people. Ourpath to change must rely on massivemovement-building, unitingeconomic justice and democracy."

Cohen's comments were part of adiscussion forum on the new book"Why Labor Organizing Should Be aCivil Right" by Richard Kahlenbergand Moshe Z. Marvit.

Read more from Cohen, laborleaders, academics and publicinterest group leaders and morehere.

Violence Against Women ActReturns to the Senate

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At last, the Senate is poised to renew the Violence Against Women Act, abill that Republicans thwarted last year over provisions for abused illegalimmigrants, LGBT couples and Native Americans.

On the vote on the motion to proceed earlier this week, only eight far-rightRepublicans including Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio

voted against even debating the bill.

The updated version of the legislation, which was first passed in 1994 andexpired in 2011, is expected to be approved today. The bill has the supportof 60 senators enough to dodge another potential Republican filibuster.

Long Lines Disenfranchised 2012 Voters

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The New York Times graphed MIT's findings.

The numbers are in and it doesn't look pretty.

During the November 2012 election, black and Hispanic voters waitednearly twice as long in line to vote as white voters, according to aMassachusetts Institute of Technology analysis. White voters waited anaverage of 12.7 minutes, while black and Hispanic voters waited anaverage of 20.2 minutes.

Shortly after Election Day, a New York Times/CBS News poll reported that

18 percent of Democrats said they waited at least a half-hour to vote,compared with 11 percent of independents and 9 percent of Republicans.

And a separate survey by an Ohio State University professor and TheOrlando Sentinel, concluded that long lines drove away at least 201,000Florida voters.

This is in no small part due to voter suppression tactics reducing earlyvoting hours, voter purging and registration restrictions aimed to keepDemocrats away from the polls.

But Democrats expect President Obama to address thisdisenfranchisement head on during next week's State of the Union address,according to The New York Times.

Congressional action could clean up this mess. The Brennan Center forJustice proposes enacting national standards to ensure that every citizenwho takes responsibility to register and vote can actually vote. In a newreport, the center says, "Our election system should offer the convenience,flexibility, and security that Americans demand from their banks and theirretirement accounts. Every American citizen whether retired in ruralAmerica, living in a high-tech city, studying on campus, or stationed in

Afghanistan should have a fair and equal opportunity to get, and stay,registered to vote. When you move, your registration should move with you.If you're an eligible voter you should be a registered voter period."

Read more about how 50 million eligible citizens would be added to therolls permanently and states would save money on election administrationhere.
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Apply for Morton Bahr Online Learning Scholarship

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Empire State College, part of the State University of New York, now isaccepting applications for the Morton Bahr Online Learning Scholarship forthe 2013-2014 academic year.

The scholarship honors CWA President Emeritus Morton Bahr, who hasbeen committed to lifelong learning and helping to provide educationalopportunity. Bahr is an alumnus of Empire State College.

For more information and to download an application, click here.

Since its inception in 2001, the Bahr scholarship has helped 56 studentscontinue their education through distance learning. Union workers, familymembers and/or domestic partners interested in working toward a degreeat Empire State College are eligible.

The deadline for applications is May 15, 2013, and award decisions will beannounced by the end of June for fall enrollment. Scholarship awards fullycover tuition, fees and special services for part-time study. New BahrScholar candidates are responsible for the cost of course materials.

Students in the program will be eligible for scholarship funding as long asthey maintain satisfactory academic progress and enroll in four to eight

credits in at least two terms per year. Once enrolled as a Bahr scholar,students also must apply for other federal, state, corporate or unionfinancial aid for which they may be eligible.

The Bahr Scholar Distance Learning Center offers dedicated, disciplinedstudents the ability to earn a degree or upgrade skills with a proven web-based education delivery. Students work with a faculty mentor to developan individualized degree program that builds upon their interests, lifeexperiences, needs and goals. Students communicate with faculty andcourse instructors by means of e-mail, telephone and through discussionareas online.

Make Sure Your Voice is Heard as CWA Builds a Movement forJustice and Democracy

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Check out the latest videos on CWA's movement building website!

CWAers are talking about how they're building our movement and sharingthose stories. From a CWA-Sierra Club partnership in Texas to Stand UpOhio to work with Jobs with Justice in communities across the country, we

have stories to tell about the work we're doing.

By joining forces with other organizations, like civil rights groups, women'sorganizations, students, religious groups, environmentalists and manymore, we grow stronger. That's the way we'll reach our goals. If we don'twork together, we won't make any progress on our core issues: good jobs,retirement security, health care and bargaining rights.

At www.cwa-union.org/voices, you can download resources and learn moreabout our fight for economic justice and democracy. Just as important, youcan share your story that will be posted on the interactive map and will

inspire more activists to join in.

It's easy to do. Just click on the "Share Your Story" button and follow theinstructions to make your own message. Stories should be between 1 and2 minutes.

Fol low us on:

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CWA Newsletter, February 7, 2013