Resources

• About CWA: About Communications Workers of America
• IBMEmployee.com Weekly summaries of issues, events, and club discussions that focus on items of interest to IBM employees, friends, and investors
• EEOC rules on waivers and severance pay, and employee rights
  
• Meet the Enemy: Learn how pro-business organizations are working against employees
  
• cashpensions.org Excellent site about cash pensions vs. defined benefit pensions. Learn about pending legislation and how you can influence it. Includes a scorecard of how individual legislators have voted for or against pension protection. Very up to date, check this site often.
• IBM UK C-Planners IBM UK Pension Plan site by and for employees
  
• How to Organize Your Workplace
• Communications Workers of America
• National Labor Relations Board The NLRB is a federal agency that protects workers by enforcing the laws about overtime practices and other practices that employers must, by law, follow (such as the Family Medical Leave Act). They also handle the area of law the protects employees who are interested in joining or forming a union.
• EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Council) A federal agency which protects us from discrimination in employment. Learn about your rights as an employee in the U.S. You can also learn how to file a complaint if you feel you may have been discriminated against -- as an example, if you are over 40 years of age.
• AFL-CIO American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations, a voluntary federation of labor unions (not a union itself, despite continual reference as such in the media). CWA is a member.
• Washtech: Visit the site of our fellow high-tech workers at Microsoft, Amazon.com, and other Seatlle area companies, organizing for fair benefits at their workplaces
• Cornell School of Industrial Labor Relations, Ithaca NY