Lobby Day Visits Get CWA Message to 200 Members of Congress

CWAers in red shirts are a big part of the meeting with Sen. Rockefeller on health care reform.

CWA members participated in more than 200 visits with their senators, representatives and staff last week during CWA's Lobby Day and the combined convention/legislative-political conference.

Employee Free Choice and health care reform were the big topics, but some of the meetings held with members of Congress gave CWAers the opportunity to raise other critical issues. 

CWA President Larry Cohen, District 2 Vice President Ron Collins, West Virginia AFL-CIO President Kenny Perdue and CWA staff met with Senator John Rockefeller (D-WVa.) and key staff about the serious issues raised by Verizon's plan to sell landlines in the state to Frontier Communications.  

CWA is raising concerns that the sale will affect quality service for consumers and will mean more roadblocks for the buildout of high speed broadband networks in West Virginia. Without high speed Internet, West Virginia residents won't have access to applications like tele-medicine and distance learning and businesses will be restricted in growing new jobs.