TO: All CWA Local 1081 Members
FROM: David H. Weiner, President
DATE: October 13, 2007
Re: COPE Grievance Response
Click here for Director Nigro's Step II Class Action Contractual Grievance denial response of October 11, 2007 to CWA Local 1081's grievance of September 12, 2007, wherein we protested the County's having failed to process members' of our Union's COPE cards.
CWA-COPE is the political action committee for the working men and women of CWA, their families and retirees. CWA-COPE informs and mobilizes union families to encourage their participation in the political process. Through their political action committee, CWA men and women express their voice in politics and policy issues that affect their lives.
Funded by the voluntary contributions of CWA members, their family members and retirees, CWA-COPE provides financial contributions to worker-friendly candidates. CWA can only use voluntary dollars to contribute to an endorsed candidate for federal office. No union dues money of any kind can be given to a political candidate for federal office or national political party.
CWA-COPE also provides information to union families about the candidates and their positions on the issues affecting their lives. Decent health care, overtime pay, safe working conditions, family-friendly workplaces, retirement security, freedom to organize are among the concerns influenced by the political process. CWA-COPE endorses candidates regardless of political party who supports working families.
Working families can never match the contributions of Corporate America or the wealthy. Together we can combine our financial and voluntary resources to make a real difference in hundreds of key elections at the federal, state and local level. CWA-COPE offers workers the power to gain the attention of lawmakers to their agenda.
In a representative democracy, many voices speaking together are louder than a single voice talking alone. Just as union representation gives workers a voice on the job to improve their lives, CWA-COPE is the workers voice in politics to improve their communities and nation. CWA-COPE makes politics work for working families.
Now that our grievance has resulted in the County and our Union coordinating a process to ensure our members' COPE cards will be properly processed, CWA Local 1081 Executive Vice President/Political Action Committee Chairperson Greg Payton and his committee will soon develop and distribute to our members a COPE program to encourage as many members of CWA Local 1081 as possible to sign-up for this most important purpose.
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