President Shelton: We Must Defeat Donald Trump

At the CWA District 9 Conference this week, CWA President Chris Shelton told attendees that with Donald Trump, Republicans, and corporations banding together to gut workers' rights at a frightening pace, union members must do everything they can to beat Trump in November.

"We need to make sure our members know about every single thing Trump has done to make working people's lives worse since he was elected," said Shelton. "Trump's Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia aggressively defended Cablevision's union-busting, including firing workers for union activity when they tried to win a contract with CWA. At OSHA, there are fewer inspectors than at any time in history and workplace fatalities are rising as a result."

"Keep speaking up, and keep paying attention," said CWA Secretary-Treasurer Sara Steffens who also addressed the conference. "As November nears, it will become more and more clear who supports working people of this country, and who does not."

"Society is shifting. More and more, our communities are realizing that having a voice at work makes a difference in their daily lives. We must be the example. We will be the example," said CWA District 9 Vice President Frank Arce.

District 4 Vice President Linda L. Hinton, District 6 Vice President Claude Cummings, NewsGuild-CWA President Jon Schleuss, NABET-CWA President Charlie Braico, Telecom & Technologies Vice President Lisa Bolton, Public Sector Vice President Margaret Cook, and members of the CWA executive board Dante Harris, Erika White, and Carolyn Wade all attended the conference.

CWAers at the conference also protested in front of a Frontier office in Long Beach to call on new Frontier CEO Bernie Han to meet with President Shelton and make sure workers have a seat at the table as Frontier makes decisions about the company's future.

CWAers at the District 9 conference protested in front of a Frontier office in Long Beach, Calif., to call on new Frontier CEO Bernie Han to meet with President Shelton.