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CWA members do many of them, from emergency dispatchers and first responders (Number 1) to call center workers and telephone operators (Number 3) to social workers (Number 8) to probation officers (Number 16).

Flight Attendants are entrusted with the safety, health, and security of passengers. But they’re often asked to perform duties on their “rest” time, resulting in getting less rest than required.

A top legislative priority for AFA-CWA is increased minimum rest requirements for Flight Attendants to be included in the Federal Aviation Administration’s authorization. 

For airport ramp workers at Piedmont Airlines, safety is the top priority. 

Each year, CWA, working in partnership with the Steelworkers union and the Tony Mazzocchi Center, trains about 1,000 workers across all our sectors. The goal: to train a new generation of health and safety activists using the most up-to-date training programs and methodology and to build even stronger links among CWA activists and with health and safety activists throughout the labor movement and allies.  

New York nurses are fighting back against management pressure to take on 9, 10 or even more patients at once. They know that’s not safe for patients or nurses. Research shows that when nurses care for two to three times the patients they can safely manage, the chances of preventable death, hospital acquired infections, and adverse outcomes increase.