Communications Workers of America Local 1133
Mercy United!
CWA Local 1133 President
Peggy Chadwick-Ledwon
Current Articles &
News Information
PEF Wins Temporary Restraining Order For Mandated Vaccines
Newest hurdle on how to pay for healthcare reform: UNIONS!
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Western NY Health Care Campaign
Pizza 
Party
The union has decided to throw a pizza party for the department that has the most participants in the Annual Labor Day Parade!!
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On Oct 2nd Unions across American will join with community groups to march on Washington for Working Middle Class Rights!
There will be free bus transportation to Washington on Saturday Oct 2nd 2010, so feel free to bring any family and friends and make sure to get the word out!
Click here for full details and complete transportation information
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Breaking: Full NLRB Upholds Union Election for EZ Pass Workers
The National Labor Relations Board, by a 2-1 vote, denied a request by Xerox Corp./Affiliated Computer Services to throw out a regional director's decision that certified the EZ Pass workers' union election.
In August 2009, EZ Pass workers at the Staten Island, N.Y., call center won CWA representation, with CWA Local 1102 leading the organizing. Xerox/ACS appealed the election and has refused to bargain over the past 13 months.
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85 Percent of Workers Say Job Safety More Critical than Wages, Other Issues
More than eight of ten workers, 85 percent, rank job safety first in importance among workplace issues, according to a new University of Chicago study.
The overwhelming response suggests that workers' concerns are often dismissed and workplace accidents taken for granted, said Tom W. Smith of the university's National Opinion Research Center. He noted, for instance, that the widespread coverage of the Gulf oil disaster "has virtually ignored the 11 workers killed by the blowout and destruction of the drilling platform."
Both the deaths and the environmental disaster could have been avoided "if optimal safety had been maintained," Smith said.
Robert Shull of the Public Welfare Foundation, which commissioned the study, said, "Unsafe working conditions end up costing the public dearly". But no matter what the cost to the general public, the workers and their families pay the highest price."
Read the full report on the foundation's website, www.publicwelfare.org.
Separately, CWA Occupational Safety and Health Director Dave Le Grande said the first joint session for CWA and USW occupational safety and health trainers will be held September 13-17 at USW Headquarters in Pittsburgh. The training is part of a five-year grant program to CWA and the Steelworkers funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
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Court Cases Curb or AffirmWorkers Rights
If you want to know the importance of courts to workers, just ask Elizabeth Hunter, William Garraughty, Tasha Joshaway, Michael Yurkowski and Debbie Goin, all of them members of the Amalgamated Transit Union in Chicago.
They’ve had to go to court there, in a class-action case, to try to get their jobs back -- after their employer fired them for allegedly flunking criminal background checks, and didn’t give them hearings on the issue that were legally required.
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CWA MEMBERSHIP MEETING SCHEDULE
MEETINGS WILL BE HELD AT CWA LOCAL 1133
821 ELK STREET – SUITE A
BUFFALO, NY 14210
All meetings have a 7:30 pm start and will be held on the following days:
September 22nd, 2010
December 15th, 2010
2010 Holiday party will be held immediately after the December 15th Membership Meeting
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2010 Mays Scholarship Winners:
On behalf of all our members we would like to congratulate these individuals and wish the best for them in the coming year and in all their future endeavors.
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Student Name Member Local
Katie Perna Teri Bender 1168
Jamiere Leslie Valaria Leslie 1133
Joseph Todaro Susan Todaro 1133
Sean Murray Michele Murray 1168
Randy Bloom Randy Bloom Sr. 1122
Cameron Kayne Shelley Kayne 1168
Molly Hayes Debbie Hayes 1168
Yevette Jackson Tony J. Benson 1168
Alternates:
Student Name Member Local
Rebecca Bauer Marianne Longo 1122
Jillian Sacha Self 1133
Jeffery Renaud Timothy Renaud 1122
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Newly Elected Officials
With a new Congress in office and many state legislatures starting up, you can look for those very important first pieces of legislation coming through our key votes department. Also, make sure to keep an eye out for special elections and replacements as politicians are shuffled in and out of office. We aren't here just for elections, we want you to use our information to keep up with the individuals who are working for you in your state capital and D.C.
IMPORTANT FMLA NEWS
Recently the union discovered that Management is requiring that employees who use FMLA on weekends must make up this time. They are requiring that these employees must make up this time on a weekend that they would normally have off. The Union’s position on this is that it is ILLEGAL for them to do this. If this is happening to you or any of your co-workers please let us know.
Call 828-1133
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CWA Local 1133 Short Staffing Form STC/RN
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