Movement Building Update

Members of CWA Locals 4009, 4034, 4013, 4123 and CWA staff joined hundreds of union and community supporters outside the state Capitol in Lansing, Mich., protesting the lead-poisoned water in Flint, Mich., and the outrageous treatment of Flint residents by Governor Rick Snyder (R) and other state officials. The governor's email show that state employees in Flint were provided with bottled drinking water a year ago, while the complaints of residents, physicians and some public health officials were ignored. Lead is especially harmful to children in terms of brain and physiological development.