CWA President Cummings and IUE-CWA President Kennebrew Invited to Serve on Labor Advisory Committee

Earlier this month, Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai (USTR) invited CWA President Claude Cummings Jr. and IUE-CWA Division President Carl Kennebrew to serve on the Labor Advisory Committee for Trade Negotiations and Trade Policy. In this role, President Cummings and President Kennebrew will be able to review draft texts of U.S. trade negotiations, enabling them to provide feedback on behalf of our union to make sure that our trade policies support good union jobs for CWA members and other workers across the country.

In recent decades, a large majority of the advisers that the USTR has appointed to review trade negotiating texts have served on behalf of corporations, many of whom stand to profit by offshoring our jobs to lower-wage countries where they can exploit workers. With CWA and IUE-CWA represented, the Biden Administration has once again shown its respect for the views of working people by welcoming us to have a seat at the table to protect workers' interests.

CWA Director of Government Affairs Dan Mauer took a literal seat at the table when he testified last week at a roundtable hosted by Democratic members of the House of Representatives Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. Mauer spoke in support of the Biden-Harris Administration's recent actions to combat the illegal dumping of goods by Chinese government-controlled companies that displaces American manufacturing jobs.