New Stewards Army Online Course: Speed & Public Policy

CWA has launched the first of a series of free online, interactive training courses as part of the effort to build a Stewards Army of activists for grassroots action on key issues and campaigns.

Developed by CWA/NETT's professional trainers, the course is a user-friendly and self-paced look at "The Changing Telecom Industry and Why Speed Matters." (It generally takes about 30 minutes to click through the course and answer short quizzes at the end of each topic.)

Log in today and check out the course at www.cwanett.org.

Slides with text and animated graphics describe the major forces that are transforming the telecom world and changing job patterns for the future. These include the move away from wireline telecom with the emergence of wireless, the growth of Voice over Internet Protocol and competition from cable providers that currently have an edge with "triple play" services.

Real high-speed Internet networks are the key to the survival and growth of CWA's employers and the source of job opportunity for our telecom members. But there are many political and policy roadblocks to overcome in transforming essentially a 20th Century phone network into a communications system for the 21st Century.

Learn how CWA is mounting an ambitious Speed Matters campaign for job and economic growth and how CWA Stewards Army activists can play a key role in this fight for our job future.

As President Larry Cohen says in the introduction to the course, "CWA has long recognized that stewards are the heartbeat and the strength of our union." Join us as a Stewards Army activist as we ignite a new movement to change America's priorities.