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The Historical Fight for Skilled, Human Labor

From switchboards to software, CWAers have always been on the frontlines of the fight to protect the dignity of work against the siren’s call of cost-cutting through automation and new technologies. Throughout the decades, CWAers have organized to ensure that new technologies augmented our labor, rather than replacing us.

1991 photo of CWA Local 3806 members marching for Operator Awareness Week in Memphis

Pictured at left: CWA Local 3806 members marched as part of the National Operator Awareness Week demonstration in Memphis, Tenn., in 1991.