Unions have always been the foundation of America’s middle class. Hardworking families are feeling the squeeze from economic policies that bail out billionaires but abandon workers. It’s time to level the playing field.

The Employee Free Choice act will make it easier for millions of workers to join unions. A strong union workforce means higher wages, better benefits, and improved living standards for everyone.

Learn more and sign a petition click here (link) http://www.freechoiceact.org/cwa

It’s Time to Restore Workers’ Freedom to Form Unions

America’s working people are struggling to make ends meet these days and our middle class is disappearing. The best opportunity working people have to get ahead economically is by uniting to bargain with their employers for better wages and benefits. Recent research has shown that some 60 million U.S. workers would join a union if they could

But the current system for forming unions and bargaining is broken. Every day, corporations deny workers the freedom to decide for themselves whether to form unions to bargain for a better life. They routinely intimidate, harass, coerce and even fire workers who try to form unions and bargain for economic well-being.

The Employee Free Choice Act (H.R. 800, S. 1041), supported by a bipartisan coalition in Congress, would level the playing field for workers and employers and help rebuild America’s middle class. It would restore workers’ freedom to choose a union by:

• Establishing stronger penalties for violation of employee rights when workers seek to form a union and during first-contract negotiations.
• Providing mediation and arbitration for first-contract disputes.
• Allowing employees to form unions by signing cards authorizing union representation.

CWA Joe Beirne Foundation

Scholarship Program

CWA members, their spouses, children and grandchildren (including dependents of laid-off, retired or deceased CWA members) may apply. Applicants must be high school graduates or at least high school students who will graduate during the year in which they apply. Undergraduate and graduate students returning to schooling may also apply. Prior winners may not reapply.

Thirty (30) two-year scholarships, to be paid at the rate of $3,000 annually, are awarded each year to applicants from the U.S.A. and Canada. A second-year award is contingent on academic accomplishment of the first year. 

Applications are accepted during the months of November through March. Final deadline is March 31, 2010.  Visit www.cwa-union.org/members for details.

SHOP AT&T CORPORATE STORES

AT&T sends its trained professional UNION employees to your home to provide service and you should expect the same professional service from AT&T wireless. Shop and buy UNION. Visit one of the Corporate Stores for your next wireless purchase. 

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2617 Lakewood Village Drive, NLR 72116

4546 E. McCain Blvd., NLR 72117

2614 S. Shackleford Rd., LR 72205

11520 Financial Center Pkwy, LR 72211

11525 Cantrell Rd., LR 72212      1001 S. Bowman Rd., LR 72211

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11525 Cantrell Rd Little Rock AR 72212

12005 Maumelle Blvd North Little Rock AR 72113

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