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Workers Memorial Day 2025: Fight for Our Lives: Safe Jobs Now!

The AFL-CIO materials for Workers’ Memorial Day 2025 are now available for downloading and ordering, including a comprehensive Toolkit, Digital Artwork, and Fliers.


Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect

The AFL-CIO's "2024 Death on the Job: the Toll of Neglect" report is available.


About the CWA Occupational Safety & Health Department

The CWA Occupational Safety and Health Department has as its primary responsibility the elimination/minimization of member exposure to hazardous working conditions and potentially related injuries, illnesses, and fatalities. The Department’s primary areas of activity include:

  • Promoting the awareness of occupational and environmental safety and health issues and concerns,
  • Training CWA members in occupational safety and health recognition and control, and
  • Developing an ongoing comprehensive workplace safety and health program.

The primary work functions of the department include:

  • The identification of member workplace safety and health needs,
  • The development and use of information and communication tools including the CWA Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Webpage,  
  • The development and dissemination of educational and training materials that target the elimination/minimization of hazardous working conditions experienced by CWA members,
  • The provision of technical assistance that addresses specific member workplace safety and health hazards,
  • Conducting and sponsoring both generalized and specialized occupational safety and health education and training classes/programs for CWA leaders and occupational safety and health activists, and
  • Conducting and sponsoring survey and scientific research specific to the workplace safety and health hazards encountered by the Union’s members.

These activities are achieved through the development and use of a coordinated approach within CWA involving headquarters personnel as well as national, district, and local officers, leaders, and occupational safety and health activists.

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June 18, 2025

Gaslit: CWA Members Fight for a Safe Workplace

Earlier this month, CWA Local 7076 members working at the New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) in Albuquerque, N.M., escalated their fight for a safe working environment.
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June 18, 2025

CWA Members and Other Journalists Face Attacks from Law Enforcement

Journalists and other media workers covering protests in Los Angeles last week were deliberately targeted with less-lethal rounds and tear gas by law enforcement.
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Journalists and Media Workers Must Be Protected When Covering Protests

Members of our union and other journalists have been targeted by law enforcement with less-lethal rounds and tear gas and detained while covering the protests in Los Angeles.