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Senate Confirms Five NLRB Members and Democratic Majority We 2CWA News / Fall 2013 WORKING Together Trans-Pacific Partnership ‘It’s a race to the bottom and we need a race to the top’ or 130 million U.S. in the past 20 years, TPP isn’t concerned with U.S. We have built a strong coalition that’s working together working workers or jobs. Every other nation starts out with jobs and to get participation in these negotiations, and to stop fast Americans, the economy as priorities. The U.S. unfortunately has a dif - track if that doesn’t happen. No citizens groups have been Fthe Trans-Pa - ferent focus, and looks at trade in terms of national security involved to any extent so far in these negotiations but we cific Partnership is, as and global corporate interests, not ensuring the economic have been making our voices heard. Read more about our U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison well-being of working families. coalition work on page 3. described so well, the Here’s a good example. The minimum wage in Vietnam, “largest corporate one of the proposed member nations of TPP, is 25 cents an power grab you never hour. U.S. workers should not compete with workers who heard of.” earn 25 cents an hour. But multinational corporations, in “TPP is a punch After 19 rounds of this continuing race to the bottom, will be happy to send negotiations among jobs to Vietnam and every other subsistence-wage nation. in the face to the Larry Cohen, CWA President the United States, It’s not just manufacturing jobs. We’re talking service Australia, Brunei, sector work, including information technology and tech middle class of Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, support jobs. Buy American policies, call center legislation Singapore and Vietnam, TPP remains a mystery to everyone to keep good jobs here and to end taxpayer handouts to America.” except government trade negotiators and the corporate lob - companies that offshore jobs, environmental standards, and byists who get to read all the proposals. even public health efforts would be disallowed or dramati - Even Members of Congress have no real idea of what’s cally weakened. Unions, greens including Sierra Club and Greenpeace, involved in the negotiations. Foreign firms would be given equal access to bidding on consumer and citizen action groups like Citizens Trade Cam - Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), has seen some of the pro - U.S. federal government contracts, and private corporations paign and Public Citizen, public health groups, people of posals. TPP “is a punch in the face to the middle class of from other countries would be able to challenge U.S. laws faith, all are working for changes in or rejection of this deal. America, but I’m not allowed to tell you why,” he said. and regulations, including those dealing with telecom, We must pursue economic policies and trade policies for In addition to the secrecy, trade negotiators are counting health and the environment, if they think our laws limit their American workers, just as the Vietnamese and other nations on “fast track” authority, which blocks any changes or “expected future profits.” are pushing policies in their own interests. Clearly, we don’t amendments to the trade deal and only allows for an “up or Without a floor for wages and workers’ rights, U.S. have much in common with countries that pay workers 25 down” vote by Congress. Stopping or changing fast track is workers will again lose out. Our 20 years of experience in cents an hour, nor should we. Again, it’s time to stand up the only real way to change TPP. trade deals, going back to NAFTA, has proven that U.S. jobs and fight back. TPP is bad for working families, because, like nearly go offshore and the jobs that are created here are low wage, every other trade agreement that’s been negotiated by the no benefit jobs. That’s not the future Americans want for themselves or their children. ® CW Anews Volume 73, No. 3 Fall 2013 Official Publication of the Communica - CWA News (ISSN 0007-9227) is published tions Workers of America (AFL-CIO, CLC) quarterly Jan/Feb/March, April/May/June, International Union Headquarters July/Aug/Sept, and Oct/Nov/Dec by Communica - 501 3rd Street, N.W., tions Workers of America, 501 3rd Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001-2797 Washington, D.C. 20001-2797. Periodical Phone: (202) 434-1100 Postage Paid at Washington, D.C. and additional mailing offices Address changes: Postmaster: Send address changes to CWA Inquiries or corrections for CWA News News, 501 3rd Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. subscriptions should be addressed to CWA 20001-2797. Membership Dues Dept. Printed at Kelly Press, Cheverly, Md. E-Mail: [email protected] Design by Chadick+Kimball, Washington, D.C. CWA Executive Board I President Larry Cohen Produced by I Secretary-Treasurer Annie Hill I Vice Presi - CWA Communications Department dents District 1, Christopher M. Shelton I Dis - Director/Executive Editor trict 2-13, Edward Mooney I District 3, Judy Candice M. Johnson Dennis I District 4, Linda Hinton I District 6, Senior Writer/Editor Kendra Marr Chaikind Claude Cummings I District 7, Mary Taylor I I Editorial Specialist Alicia Nestor District 9, Jim Weitkamp Telecommunications and Technologies, Bill Bates I Public, Health Technical Specialist Sarah Splitt Care and Education Workers, Brooks Sunkett I Broadcast and Cable Television Workers, Jim Joyce I The Newspaper Guild-CWA, Bernie Lun - zer I IUE-CWA Industrial Division, Jim Clark I CWAers were a part of the March on Washington in 1963 and again 50 years later, as workers, civil Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, Veda rights activists, greens, students, people of faith and many more came together to support the dream Shook I PPMWS Executive Officer Dan Wasser of democracy and justice for all. We know we can’t do it alone. Building a movement of allies is how I At Large Board Members: Madelyn Elder, we will achieve economic and social justice. Nestor Soto, Carolyn Wade, Greg Wynn I Direc - tor TNG-SCA Canada, Martin O’Hanlon CWA News / Fall 2013 3 Working together for good jobs, strong communities We Got Five! On Capitol Hill Senate Confirms Five NLRB Members and Democratic Majority Fighting for Good e did it! For the first time in a decade, the National Labor Call Center Jobs WRelations Board has five Senate-confirmed WA activists are fighting to members. The three Demo - keep good call center jobs cratic members confirmed by here in the U.S., and one way CWA: No Fast Track for the Senate are Mark Pearce, Cto help make that happen is Nancy Schiffer, and Kent Hi - through legislation that takes away the rozawa. The Senate-confirmed rewards that U.S. companies now re - Trans-Pacific Partnership Republicans are Harry John - ceive for moving jobs offshore. son and Phil Miscimarra. The “U.S. Call Center and Worker CWA led this fight, as Protection Act of 2013,” H.R. 2909, ‘We need fair trade, not fast track’ e-mails and phone calls from was again introduced in Congress, thousands of CWA members and CWA members are pushing hard around the country called on the for its passage, with actions and Senate to restore the full enforce - events underway in October and to ment power of this critical agency. mark the global Call Center Action But we couldn’t have done it alone. Month that is focusing on compen - Progressive groups like the sation and professionalism. Democracy Initiative and Fix the The bi-partisan legislation is Senate Now, a coalition of more sponsored by Democratic Reps. Tim than 70 organizations, held lawmak - Bishop (NY-1), Mike Michaud (ME-2) ers’ feet to the fire with an ad cam - and Gene Green (TX-29), along with paign, rallies and letters. CWA and Republicans David McKinley (WVA- union, environmental, LGBT, good 1), Michael Grimm (NY-11) and Chris government and social justice ac - Gibson (NY-19). tivists pushed Democrats to break State legislative efforts have been the Republican minority’s obstruc - building over the past year with bills tion that has kept many of President introduced in Florida, Arizona, New Obama's executive nominations Mexico, New York and New Jersey, waiting for Senate action for as long and other states. as two years. “Press 1 For America,” a part of Allies like the Sierra Club, the bill, requires call center employ - NAACP, National Gay and Lesbian ees to identify their location and out - Hundreds of activits march through Task Force and Alliance for Justice downtown Minneapolis. side the United States, to offer spelled out how important the consumers the opportunity to be NLRB is to all working families in transferred back to a U.S. facility. The newspaper ads before the vote. bill also bars federal grants, loans he evidence just keeps United States and 11 other Pacific County, Va., to Minneapolis, CWA “Our path for change is the and subsidies to companies that mounting. The Trans-Pacific Rim countries are discussing what activists and allies are standing Democracy Initiative, an organiza - send call center jobs offshore. Partnership, a trade agree - could be the largest trade agreement strong against the secrecy and tion of unions, civil rights and com - About 3 percent of the U.S. work - Tment, is a bad deal that could in U.S. history. But only corporate greed of TPP. In August, District 7 munity groups, greens, people of force is employed at call centers, jeopardize U.S. jobs, wages, con - lobbyists and government officials CWA members and activists from faith and others.
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