More than 700 CWAers Take Our Messge to Capitol Hill During CWA Legislative-Political Conference

For more information: Jeff Miller or Candice Johnson, CWA Communications, 202-434-1168, 202-415-6566 (cell) and jmiller@cwa-union.org and cjohnson@cwa-union.org

Washington, D.C. -- More than 700 members of the Communications Workers of America are in Washington, D.C., for CWA's 2007 legislative-political conference. All general sessions will be held at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill, New Jersey Ave., N.W., in the Regency Ballroom.

Afternoons are spent meeting with congressional representatives and staff, and in issues workshops covering workers rights and the Employee Free Choice Act, Speed Matters – CWA's campaign for universal high-speed Internet networks, health care and other topics. The schedule for Tuesday and Wednesday: 

Tuesday, March 27

8:15     Session opens.

8:30     Senator and Presidential Candidate Barack Obama (D-Ill.)

8:50     Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.)

9:10     Representative George Miller (D-Calif.)

9:30     Representative Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-Mich.), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus

10:00   Presidential Candidate John Edwards

10:30   Representative and House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC)

11:10   Senator and Presidential Candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.)

Wednesday, March 28

8:15     House Speaker Nancy Pelosi  

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CWA represents more than 700,000 workers in telecommunications and Internet technology, media and publishing, broadcast and cable television, public service and health care, higher education, airlines and manufacturing.