Building a Movement 50 Million Strong

Members of CWA Locals 6300 and 6350 join a crowd of 4,500 Mine Workers and supporters at a rally outside the bankruptcy court in St. Louis. The court will soon make a decision over Peabody/Patriot’s scheme to deny retired workers their health coverage.

At CWA's latest Political Leadership Boot Camp in Richmond, Va., activists generated more than 50 phone calls in support of confirming all five National Labor Relations Board nominees. Read more about the trainings here.

CWA Local 4603 activists joined the Raise Up Milwaukee Rally to support the city's low-wage workers' fight for $15 an hour and the right to form a union without employer retaliation. Pictured from left to right: Jim Courchane, Greg Tennyson, Keisha Hollis-Wilson, Clarissa Williams, Chris Drotzur, and Derrick Robinson.

CWAers supported hundreds of non-union workers with taxpayer-supported jobs who went on strike in Washington, DC. At the Good Jobs Now rally, they called on "the federal government to stop being America's leading poverty job creator by paying us living wages and benefits." Learn more at http://goodjobsnation.org.

Activists flooded Union Station and wrote letters to President Obama, demanding that he intervene to support living wages for federally contracted workers. Click here to read a letter from Natividad Lucila Ramirez, who has spent 21 years making Union Station a clean and welcoming place.