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AT & T Mobility Health Care Bargaining Survey TNG-CWA ELECTION NOTICE
I WON'T BUY IT!
Pledge to Cancel Your Press-Telegram Subscription
CWA Minority Caucus Scholarship 2008 For info and application Press Telegram Mobilized and Ready!
The Long Beach City Council on Tuesday night unanimously passed a motion to study the city government's financial relationship with the Press-Telegram, with the possibility of pulling their ads, at wake of last week's layoffs and re-structuring. Get the latest news on the Guild's Contract Negotiations at: Health Care Voices CWA Members mobilizing to guarantee health care for all SPEED MATTERS! The results are in... You helped to spotlight just how far the U.S. lags behind in high-speed speed Internet, and you can help push lawmakers to start turning the situation around with a new bill in the U.S. Senate. More than 80,000 of you have taken the Speed Matters Speed Test, and now we've compiled the results into a new, state-by-state report on Internet speeds. This first-ever report paints a bleak picture - the United States has fallen behind our international competitors in access to affordable high speed internet. This week we’re delivering the Speed Test report to every member of Congress. Will you take a moment to call your Senators’ offices? Ask them to look out for the report, and urge them to support the Broadband Data Improvement Act (S.1492) - a new bill that will help us catch up to our international competitors. Below are the names and phone numbers of your Senators and an example of what you could say when you call.
Barbara Boxer
Dianne Feinstein When the receptionist picks up, ask to speak to the staff member responsible for telecommunications. When that person answers (or if you get a voice mail) you can say something along these lines: "Hi my name is ________________. This week the Communications Workers of America released a state-by-state report on U.S. Internet connection speed. The report was delivered to your office. It shows that the United States is lagging behind our international competitors when it comes to high speed Internet access and has data specific to connection speed in our state. I urge you and (NAME OF SENATOR) to take a careful look at the report, and to support S.1492, the Broadband Data Improvement Act, as a first step to affordable high-speed Internet for America." The report showed a national median download speed of a sluggish 1.9 megabits per second (mbps). Compare that to median speeds of 61 mbps in Japan, 45 mbps in South Korea, and 17 mbps in France, and it's clear that the U.S. is falling far behind. Median upload speed in the U.S. was an exceedingly slow 371 kilobits per second. The true picture of U.S. Internet speed is actually more dismal than our report demonstrates. Less than 5 percent of participants in this survey used dial-up connections, whereas some 30 to 40 percent of Americans still use dial-up. We launched the report on Monday, and several news outlets including USA Today, The Boston Globe, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, and MSNBC have picked up the story. Click the link below to check out our new report and see how far the United States has fallen behind. You can also use our interactive map to see how the average connection speeds in your state, county and zip code measure up:
http://www.speedmatters.org/challenge/state.html
SPEED MATTERS! Take the District 9 Speed Matters Test This quote expresses CWA's view on Speed Matters and an Open Internet. It's from Mark Cuban, billionaire founder of HDNet, an HDTV broadcast network and other innovative online and media products and services, and now NBA Dallas Mavericks owners. (You may have heard of him, I had to look him up on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cuban)
This is from testimony May 10, 2007 to the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
He wrote "The issue of net neutrality is the perfect example of how constrained bandwidth creates conflicts between the interests of consumers and broadband providers. Internet consuemrs are concerned that their favorite websites will either cost more due to increased hosting costs, or will be slow or erratic when accessed because they are not given the priority of those who pay more. This issue goes away completely if bandwidth constraints go away. In an all fiber network, bandwidth gigabits per second to the home and throughout the network, making net neutrality a non issue."
His full testimony at http://energycommerce.house.gov/cmte_mtgs/110-ti-hrg.051007.Cuban-Testimony.pdf FCC's Martin Backs Universal Service Fund For Broadband Roll-Out What is it and Why Does It Matter To Me? Is Healthcare picking your pocket? Healthcare- Here today, gone tomorrow? OUR HEALTHCARE-It Should Be OUR Choice Did you know that medical costs for your family could increase even more if we don’t take action? Right now there are several proposals to reform the health care system in the state legislature. But if we don’t speak up, they may not address the problems we face. Skyrocketing premiums. Astronomical co-pays. Shrinking benefits. Employers dropping insurance. HMO's denying coverage. Emergency rooms closing. It's no secret - hard-working Californians know firsthand that our healthcare system is isn't working. We keep paying more, while getting less care. Fixing the healthcare system is a top priority for unions this year. As consumers, we should have the loudest voice in the healthcare debate - after all, it's OUR healthcare! Take action now
Ask your legislator to support reforms that fix OUR
healthcare system and put consumers first!
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