CWA
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- (US, historical, 1933–1934) Initialism of Civil Works Administration.
- (US) Initialism of Clean Water Act.
- 2023 March 31, Alisha Ebrahimji and Andi Babineau, “US Justice Department sues Norfolk Southern following train derailment in East Palestine”, in CNN:
- DOJ is asking for $64,618 per day, per violation of the CWA and $55,808 per day or $2,232 per barrel of oil or unit of hazardous substance, per violation of the CWA – but it was not immediately clear from the suit how many days the DOJ considered the violation to be applicable.
- (US) Initialism of Communications Workers of America.
- 2011 September 4, Will Marshall, “Why America Needs a New Deal for Labor and Business”, in The Atlantic:
- But CWA is focused on upping investment in job creation, not just low prices. As part of the proposed merger, AT&T has agreed to make significant investment in new mobile broadband services which could lead to the creation of up to 96,000 new jobs.
- 2021 March 2, Brian Heater, “Following unionization, Glitch signs collective bargaining agreement”, in TechCrunch:
- In January, workers at Google formed a solidarity union in affiliation with CWA. The following month, Medium workers announced plans to unionize as well (the organization recently failed to win majority support in a third-party election and is momentarily pausing organizing activities).
- (Australia) Initialism of Country Women's Association.