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May 30, 2013
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CWAers in N.Y. Campaign for Public Election Financing
CWAers Tell Senators Give Me 5 NLRB Members
Fighting for Quality Care in New York
Building Our Movement
Urge Lawmakers to Pass Federal Shield Law
CWAers in N.Y. Campaign for Public Election Financing
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NY State Senator David Carlucci joins CWAdistrict 1 canvassing event.
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citizens in the push for publically financed campaigns in New York.
A measure proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, passed by the StateAssembly and is pending before the State Senate. Supporting thelegislation is a broad coalition of state and national organizations
including CWA, Citizen Action, Common Cause, the Working FamiliesParty and The Brennan Center for J ustice.
CWA Local 1103 rallies for publically financed campaigns in NewYork.
Last Thursday, CWA members met at CWA Local 1120 inPoughkeepsie for an intense day-long mobilization training led byveteran Working Families Party organizer Maureen Darras. CWAerstalked about the huge role of money in politics, learned which electedofficials needed pressure to support publically financed campaignsand determined how to "cut turf" in specific geographic areas to reacha maximum number of union households.
Training also included practice in the art of canvassing, from the initialgreeting to getting a signature on a petition.
During the day, activists received phone calls from state lawmakerswho encouraged them to keep up the fight, and a representative fromthe office of New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a Hudson Valley native,attended the session to personally encourage the activists.
Hitting the ground running, CWA canvassers met with State SenatorDavid Carlucci, a key swing vote on the issue, in his Rockland Countyoffice; Carlucci expressed his support for their work. Over the two daycanvass, the group knocked on hundreds of doors.
CWA Local 1120 Legislative and Political Action Director J ohn T.O'Malley said the program will continue into J une with member-to-member outreach in Westchester and Orange Counties as well.
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CWAers Tell Senators Give Me 5 NLRB Members
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CWA activists and allies -- all part of the Fix the Senate Nowcampaign -- turned up the heat in a week of action spotlighting theneed to have all five nominations to the National Labor RelationsBoard confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
A coalition-led petition drive, involving 17 organizations, producedmore than 140,000 signatures that were sent to the offices of SenateMajority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and top Democratic leaderSenator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)
The petition says: "We call on you, and all the members of the Senate,to restore fairness and honor to the nomination and confirmationprocess for executive and judicial nominations, and use the rules of the Senate in a constructive way that fulfills both your constitutionalresponsibilities and the needs of the American people in thesechallenging times. Or to reform those rules if a determined minorityremains adamant in maintaining a veto over everything that conflictswith their radical philosophy."
CWA's online petition to "Give Us Five NLRB Members" has nearly20,000 signatures and is growing fast. Sign it at
http://www.giveus5NLRB.org.
Also new this week: CWA's GiveUs5 Facebook page and a newProtect Free Speech Online Facebook page.
CWAers and allies met with Senators and staff in home districts duringthis recess week. Meetings were held with the offices of SenatorsReid, Robert Portman (R-Ohio), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Sherrod Brown(D-Ohio), Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and others.
To tell your senator that youwant f ully-functioning, five-member NLRB
dial 1-888-717-0911 or visit www.nlrbcall.org.
Fighting for Quality Care in New York
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CWAers pressure lawmakers to pass the twocritical bills in the Senate and Assembly.
CWA members from several CWA District 1 Health Care CoordinatingCouncil locals were among the 1,500 health care worker activists whorallied and lobbied at the State Capitol in Albany last week to buildsupport for two critical bills: safe staffing and safe patient handling.
CWA activists participated in two days of training, lobbying, rallyingand solidarity, joining with members of PEF, SEIU 1199, NYSNA andNYPNU.
They spent several hours learning about lobbying, how bills passthrough the legislature, why contributions to the Political Action Fund(PAF) matter and more, ending with a presentation on healthcarereform by Dr. J amie Torres, regional director of the US Department of Health and Human Services.
CWA District 1 Healthcare Coordinating Council locals rally in Albany,NY.
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The Safe Staffing for Quality Care Act would require all acute carefacilities to comply with safe minimum nurse-to-patient staffing ratios. The Safe Patient Handling Act would create a written policy, withtraining, on the proper procedures for lifting and moving patients thatwould reduce injuries to both patients and healthcare workers.
Speakers included elected union leaders, legislative sponsors of thebills and Mary Anne Reardon, a registered nurse and member of Local1126, chair of the CWA District 1 Healthcare Coordinating Council.
Building Our Movement
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Larry Yee and members of CWA 9410 march with Jobs with Justice
San Francisco, United Students Against Sweatshops and other groupsoutside the GAP annual meeting May 21 in San Francisco.Demonstrators want GAP to sign the Bangladesh Fire and Safety
Agreement; four people were arrested. GAP, like Walmart, so far hasnot signed on to the agreement. More than 1,100 Bangldeshi workerswere killed in building collapse last month.
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CWA members in Los Angeles protest against a bid by the right-wingKoch brothers to buy the Tribune Co. newspapers, including the Los
Angeles Times. Joining the protest were members of NABET-CWALocal 59043 who ar e fighting for a fair contract at Telemundo stationKVEA in Burbank, California.
Urge Lawmakers to Pass Federal Shield Law
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The Guild launched an email campaign this week to turn up the heaton Congress to pass a federal shield law, ensuring that journalists areallowed to protect their sources and do their jobs without governmentinterference.
Click here to find your member of Congress and send an email. Youcan choose to send the message as prepared or edit and change asyou desire.
"There's a lot of talk, a lot of energy right now on Capitol Hill aroundthe idea of a shield law and we need to seize on that," NewsGuildPresident Bernie Lunzer said. "If we don't bring pressure to bear onCongress right now, we could lose this window of opportunity."
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That window opened earlier this month when news broke that theDepartment of J ustice, probing leaks, had seized Associated Pressphone records and was investigating a FOX News reporter.
Last week, NewsGuild added its name to supporters of the "Free Flow
of Information Act," a bipartisan federal shield law bill introduced in theU.S. House, and in the Senate two days later. The Act, as proposed,sets a high bar for the government to compel a journalist to discloseconfidential information.
For more information on the full bill and its section-by-section analysisvisithttp://newsguild.org/node/3173.
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