Louise Novotny worked in the CWA research department for almost four decades as research economist and then research director (1983-2019). Novotny led the union’s health care bargaining and policy work, negotiating managed care networks and quality initiatives to contain rising costs and protect members’ benefits, while training a network of CWA health care activists. After the 1989 CWA strike against NYNEX, Novotny led the union’s health policy program for a single-payer system. Novotny built alliances with other unions and health care reform groups around five principles for reform: universal, comprehensive, affordable, quality (with a union health care workforce), and accountable.
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