FCC Chairman Proposes Major Changes To Phone Subsidy Plan
10.06.11
As the FCC chairman unveiled major changes to the Universal Service Fund, CWA went on record urging reform that contains consumer and labor protections. Read More »
Consumer Protections and Good Jobs Archives
Democrats Continue To Pressure Administration On AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
09.22.11
U.S. Representative Heath Shuler and 14 House colleagues urged the Obama administration to approve the AT&T/T-Mobile merger. Read More »
Competition Policy Expert: Blocking AT&T/T-Mobile Merger hurts job creation
09.21.11
David Balto, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a leading expert on competition policy, penned an op-ed for The Hill's Congress Blog arguing that the Department of Justice's lawsuit against the AT&T/T-Mobile merger impedes job creation. Read More »
U.S. Needs AT&T/T-Mobile Merger, Says Larry Cohen on C-Span
09.21.11
Appearing on C-Span's The Communicators series, CWA President Larry Cohen reiterated the reasons the union supports the AT&T/T-Mobile Merger: that AT&T would repatriate offshored jobs and would benefit the parts of the country underserved by broadband networks. Read More »
Blocking AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Could Hurt Democrats, Says CWA President Cohen
09.16.11
CWA President Larry Cohen warned the Obama administration and the Democratic Party that the Justice Department's suit blocking the AT&T/T-Mobile merger could have negative consequences for workers and politically. AT&T is promising job growth when the merger goes through — something a stand-alone T-Mobile can't accomplish. Read More »
T-Mobile Call Center Takes Public Subsidies, Then Dumps Workers
09.15.11
T-Mobile has been shedding workers from a central Maine call center, even though the company had accepted millions of tax dollars to create jobs in the state. Keri Evinson, executive vice-president of Local 1400 of the Communications Workers of America, told Maine public broadcasting, that T-Mobile should either deliver the 900 jobs they've promised, or return their public subsidies. Read More »
Government static disrupts a phone connection
09.13.11
A Chicago Tribune editorial on September 12 asked the Department of Justice why it had blocked the AT&T/T-Mobile merger when there's no obvious alternative. Instead, The Tribune wrote, "In its zeal to protect consumers from price increases that may or may not have occurred in the deal's aftermath, government lawyers managed to sandbag not one but two major companies." Read More »
Grim Future for T-Mobile
09.12.11
When the U.S. Department of Justice filed suit to block the AT&T/T-Mobile merger, it didn't just stymie AT&T and possibly snuff out hopes for thousands of good, living-wage jobs. It also put struggling T-Mobile, and its parent company, Deutsche Telekom, in an untenable position. Read More »
New CWA Website Exposes Sprint Misinformation
09.08.11
The Communications Workers of America has launched Eye on Sprint, a website that puts Sprint's finances, technology, business, and employment practices under a magnifying glass. It exposes Sprint's self-interest in its attacks on the AT&T/T-Mobile merger. Read More »
Opinion: Blocking the AT&T and T-Mobile merger cripples job growth
09.08.11
Blocking the AT&T/T-Mobile merger is contrary to getting Americans back to work, writes Art Pulaski, executive secretary-treasurer of the California Labor Federation. Read More »
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