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Happening: Off-Season Elections Critical to Working People, Protect Workers Against Heat Stress & Labor Champion Congressman Peter DeFazio (OR-04).

Federally contracted customer service professionals at MAXIMUS are organizing with CWA to form a union. CWA stands in Solidarity with MAXIMUS customer service workers!

This edition features: Organizing Update, CWAers Build Global Solidarity to Lift Working Conditions for Everyone, T-Mobile Workers Share Concerns Over T-Mobile/Sprint Merger with Deutsche Telekom CEO, AFA-CWA President Sara Nelson Featured on CBS, Call Your Senator Today: It's Time to Overturn Citizens United, CWAers Successfully Defeat Two Anti-Worker Ballot Initiatives in Phoenix, Save the Date for the CWA Customer Service Week of Action

Update on AB 5, the bill to codify the Dynamex decision and curb worker misclassification and details on new polling that shows union favorability is at near a 50-year high. The future is #UnionStrong!

CWA reaches new collective bargaining agreement with AT&T Southeast for more than 20,000 employees in nine states, ending historic 4-day strike. CWA call center worker delegation meets with Filipino counterparts in Manila. CWA urges Federal Communications Commission to broaden funding base of Universal Service Fund. And an engineer’s critique of the Department of Justice’s T-Mobile-Sprint-DISH settlement.

Worksafe recently traveled to Sacramento to support SB 574 (Leyva), the Cosmetic Fragrance and Flavor Ingredient Right to Know Act of 2019. This bill would require companies selling personal care or beauty products in California to report any fragrance or flavor ingredients that are known to harm to human health and the environment.

Striking CWA Members Push AT&T Southeast to Reach Deal, CWA Members Get Boost on Picket Line from Gerry Horgan’s Daughter, Bargaining and Mobilization Update, CWAers Mourn the Loss of Piedmont Agent Kendrick Darrell Hudson, CWAers Make Thousands of Calls to Fight for Jobs on National Day of Action, Presidential Candidates Support MAXIMUS Workers’ Fight to Form A Union, 2020 Union Plus Scholarships Available for CWA Families.

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Communications Workers of America members at AT&T Southeast plan to go on strike at midnight over unfair labor practices committed by management during negotiations for a new contract.