The CWA News

Our union is the best tool we have to fight back against corporate greed. Maintaining our solidarity against those who promote hatred and division among us so that they can exploit our labor for profit is not easy, but it is essential.

What makes our union powerful is our willingness to show up and show out for one another. I was elected President of our great union with a promise to unite us and increase our reach. That process is underway and the results are in: unity is strength.

While federal law must ultimately be changed to protect workers across the country, state and local governments can take action to strengthen worker rights. State and local policies have the potential to raise wages and benefits; create jobs; strengthen worker dignity, voice, and health and safety on the job; and help reverse the increasing income inequality that has harmed workers and our economy for many years.

CWA members never stop organizing. As union members, we recognize our responsibility to help other workers win a voice at work through collective action.

For 85 years, corporate special interests have spent billions to deploy an army of lobbyists and lawyers to orchestrate a relentless campaign to disempower working people. We are fighting back, and with a new president and a new Congress we have the opportunity to rebuild worker power.