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Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA)
AFA-CWA represents Flight Attendants at over 20 airlines.
CWA Telecommunications
CWA's telecommunications workers keep our country connected with wireless and wireline service.
CWA Telecommunications and Technologies (Independent Telephone) Sector
The Telecommunications and Technologies sector represents telecom members who work at ADT, AT&T (Legacy T), Avaya, Lumen/CenturyLink, Frontier, Nokia, OFS (Atlanta & Sturbridge), and Windstream.
CWA Industrial Division/International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers (IUE-CWA)
IUE-CWA represents manufacturing and industrial workers in a wide range of industries including automotive, aerospace, furniture, and appliances.
Public Health Care and Education Workers Sector
CWA's Public, Health Care and Education Workers sector membership includes social workers, educators, health care providers, computer programmers, heavy equipment operators, and corrections and police officers.
The NewsGuild (TNG-CWA)
The NewsGuild-CWA represents journalists and other workers in the United States and Canada. NewsGuild members work at hundreds of news outlets and the Guild also represents spoken-language and sign-language interpreters and translators, social justice workers, employees of publishing houses and the staff of nonprofit organizations.
The National Association of Broadcast Employees & Technicians (NABET-CWA)
NABET-CWA represents workers employed in the broadcasting, distributing, telecasting, recording, cable, video, sound recording and related industries.
CWA Districts
District 1 - Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine,
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island,
Vermont; Frankfurt, Germany; London, England.
District 2-13 - Delaware, District of Columbia,
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia.
District 3 - Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Virgin Islands.
District 4 - Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin.
District 6 - Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas.
District 7 - Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wyoming.
District 9 - California, Guam, Hawaii, Nevada; Hong Kong; Narita, Japan.
CWA AT&T Southeast Workers Go on Strike
August 27, 2024
Late last week, over 17,000 CWA workers across the Southeast went on an unfair labor practice strike in protest against AT&T’s bad faith bargaining tactics. CWA District 3 members in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee walked off the job. Though negotiations began in late June, AT&T has refused to bargain over mandatory subjects and has failed to send a representative with authority to make decisions.
CWA President Claude Cummings Jr. said, “I have been in close contact with CWA District 3 Vice President Richard Honeycutt, and I have complete faith in our bargaining team. I have told AT&T executives that the striking workers and the bargaining team have my full support. I expect AT&T to treat every member with respect and to send representatives to the table who have authority to bargain and who are serious about bargaining in good faith.”
With customer service representatives and AT&T installation and maintenance technicians on the strike line, the company has resorted to using unqualified subcontractors to keep their network running. “During the strike, AT&T has been sending undertrained managers and contractors to perform highly technical work,” said Honeycutt. “Our members have seen them at work in their communities and documented unsafe practices, including failure to wear proper safety equipment, failure to secure ladders and other equipment, putting the worker and nearby vehicles and pedestrians at risk, and failure to mark work areas with safety cones. We are encouraging members of the public to use extra caution when encountering these worksites.”
The strike has been widely covered by news outlets, including National Public Radio, The Associated Press, and many local news outlets.
The workers have also set up a petition for supporters to sign. Please do so at cwa.org/attse-support.
Please support our brothers and sisters at AT&T by signing the above petition and by joining them on the picket line. They came out for us during our informational picketing. Any amount of time would be appreciated. The AT&T workers are picketing Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the following locations:
Raleigh
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404 Hubert St.
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120 Jones Franklin Rd.
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7520 Reba Dr.
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1150 Nowell Rd.
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5120 Fayetteville Rd.
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9542 Industry Dr.
Wendell
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520 Eagle Rock Rd.
Morrisville
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140 Southcenter Ct.
Chapel Hill
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625 Old Fayetteville Rd.
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Help CWA Members and Retirees Affected by Hurricane Idalia--August 31, 2023
Once again, CWA members and retirees in District 3 are being impacted by the destructive effects of a major hurricane. Yesterday, Hurricane Idalia made landfall in Florida, causing power outages and extensive flooding.
Among those most affected are members of CWA Local 3179
who provide essential services for the hard-hit cities of
Clearwater, Largo, St. Petersburg Beach, and Port Richey.
The storm will also impact other areas throughout the Southeast.
Please consider contributing to the CWA District 3 Disaster Relief fund. Click here for information on how to contribute online or via check.
CWA Activists Join 60th Anniversary March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
On August 26th, over 300 CWA activists gathered in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. CWA activists from across the country attended this historic event and members rode into our nation’s capital on buses from New York, New Jersey, Alabama, North Carolina, Georgia, Ohio, Wisconsin, and beyond!
During a kickoff rally at CWA Headquarters activists heard from Executive Board Member and CWA Local 9412 President Keith Gibbs, Telecommunications and Technologies President Lisa Bolton, and Human Rights Director Angie Wells. A group of workers who are organizing with CWA at federal call center contractor Maximus addressed the crowd, sharing information about their fight for equitable pay and a voice on the job. CWA Secretary-Treasurer Ameenah Salaam and Public, Health and Education Workers Vice President Margaret Cook also joined the rally and the march.
Activists wrote postcards in support of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, the PRO Act, and the fight for a living wage. Our members then marched
from Headquarters to the Lincoln Memorial to
let their voices be heard and continued the rich
tradition of labor and civil rights activism. One
of the workers from Maximus, Tonya Jackson,
spoke from the stage, saying, “At the original
March on Washington, the marchers called for
the federal government to make sure everyone
had access to good jobs with fair wages and
that people weren’t discriminated against. How
is it OK in 2023 that we work for the federal
government and we can’t afford to pay our bills,
and the CEO of our company took home more
than six million dollars last year?” You can watch
Jackson’s full speech here and check out a CWA
