Brookings Institution’s Panel Highlights CWA’s Efforts to Build Broadband for All and Create Good Jobs

CWA Broadband Brigade member Ernie Pacheco, CWA Local 9412, participated in a virtual panel discussion about creating good jobs for workers in the broadband sector. The panel discussion, hosted by the Brookings Institution’s Center for Technology Innovation, included leading workforce experts and focused on exploring the identification, training, and placement of marginalized workers in occupations directly and indirectly created by the deployment of high-speed broadband networks. Pacheco highlighted CWA’s Build Broadband Better campaign and the work the broadband brigade and our members are doing to close the digital divide and ensure broadband access for all while creating good jobs in the process. He also expressed why union representation is important in the broadband industry to prioritize safety, training, resources, good wages and benefits for workers, as well as higher quality of service for the communities that depend on it.