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RECOVERY FORTHE BOTTOM 95%OF WAGE EARNERS.  \n# WORKING Logether\n\nAMERICA NEEDS A RAISE  \nHERE'SYOURCHANCE  \nTDWNTWO ROUND·  \n.                   .    .        ..      .     .    ...      .       .  \nAs collective bargaining and union islature.Workers were told by politiciansrepresentation took off,working familiesthat a vote for union representation meantrcalizcd rcal gains.From that point on,un-Volkswagcn wouldn'tcxpand production-anabsolute lie!Volkswagen wasthreatenedrcal incsome growth and ncgoLialed rcalim-wiLh the loss of financial supporl and Laxprovements in thcir jobs.incentivcs,a bizarre approach to thegoalofkeepinggood jobs in theslale.  \nTRPARLINETICKETS.  \nGo tn.  \ncwa-union.org/contest  \nanurener your personal  \nIf we are going to have any chancefor economic recovery,working men andwomen need to be able to bargain collec-tively for improvements in wages and forour share of the productivity gains that ourwork has produced.  \nemail address.  \nWinning name/entry will bedrawn from those who enter.The winner will be announced inMay 2014.  \nThis issue of the CWA News looks atthe growing wage gap and how the lack ofbargaining rights,the increasing takeoverby corporations of our elections and publicpolicy and bad trade deals like the TransPacific Partnership are the contributingfactors to a declining middle classstandardofliving for millions of Amoricans.  \nEmail address must be valid attime of drawing.Value of prizecannot exceed $500 per ticket.CWA employees and theirfamilies are not eligible.  \nAmerica Xecdsa Raisc.notjust a high-er minimum wagc.Weknow thal alonc,wecan't achicve our goals of bargaining rights.good wages and secure jobs,and health careand rcLircmcnt sccurily.Bul we also knowthat when we work with our partners andallies-greens,good governmenl groups,civil rights and students'organizations,and many more-wemake a difference.  \nAmerica Needs a Raise.It will take allof us working together to get it,not only atthe bargaining table butinourcommunities.  \nOfficlal Publcatlon of the CommunlcationsWorkers of America(AFL-CIO.CLC)hnfernalional UnionHeadquanters5013m Street,N.W,Washinglon,D.C.20001-2797Pione:(222)434-1100  \nCWA TELEPHONE TOWN HALL CALLS  \nIf you haven't joined CWA's monthly telephone town hall call,you³re missing a lot.The 30-minute calls are held the thirdThursday of every month,at 7:30 pm ET.  \nAddress changes:  \nhnquiries or correchions for CV/A News  \nEvery month,President Cohen and CWA activists and leaders discuss what's  \nhappening in our union,from bargaining challenges to organizing.  \nProduced by  \nWe're sometimes joined by our coalition partners:Richard Cordray,the head of the  \nDirector/Executive Edior  \nConsumer Financial Protection Bureau joined the December call.Others have included  \nHouse Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi,Senators Sherrod Brown and Elizabeth Warren  \nSenior Wnter/EditorKendraMar Chaikind  \nNAACP President Ben Jealous,Rep.John Sarbanes,MSNBC Host Ed Schultz and more.  \nEditoria/Specialist Aicia Nesior  \nTechnica/Speciallst Sarah Sp  \nTEXT CWACALL TO698660R OR GO TO WWW.CWA-UNION.ORG/MONTHLYCALL  \nLary Cohen,CWA President  \nmcrica nccds a raisc.Produe-tivily,corporale prolits,exec-ulive pay and the stock markelkeep going up,but working families onlyhave seen their wages slagnale.There isno evidence of any economic recovery formostworking women and menin the US.  \nThe gap between the richest Ameri-cans and the rest of us is at another lighpoint,back towhere it was during the \"gild-edage\"ofthe 1920s.  \nFollowing World War I,organized la-borhad to fight against \"the American Plan,\"which was nothing more than a strategy bythe biggest employers and managementgroups to gct rid of unions altogcther.Italmost succccded.This corporate crusadeagainsl unions was helped cnormously byscveral posL-World War I judicial deci-sions by courls thal were extremely hostileto workersand 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