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CWA represents more than 140,000 workers in the Public, Healthcare and Education sector. The Public Healthcare and Education sector represents blue and white-collar workers in Federal, State, Local and Municipal Government, Healthcare, Education and Public Safety. |
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The workers CWA represent are comprised of teachers, maintenance and sanitation workers, probation officers, security officers, food service workers, computer technicians, life guards, park attendants, doctors, lawyers, accountants, mail clerks, nurses, correction officers, police, firemen, investigators, dentists, drivers, social workers, writers, technicians, photographers, telephone operators, library workers, nutritionists, childcare providers, building service workers, researchers, scientists, architects, reporters, (physical) therapists and home health aides. |
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Public Healthcare & Education members work in hospitals, correction facilities, nursing homes, and in colleges and universities. They work for public, private and non-profit organizations that provide and maintain many of the services that Americans see as essential for our quality of life. |
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CWA has several campaigns coast to coast organizing public workers to gain positive change for public employees. Significant progress is being made in the four corners organizing project in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah. UAGE-The Utah Association of Government Employees recognized the strength of CWA and affliated with CWA. |
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Communications Workers of America | |
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| Founded | 1949 |
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| Members | 700,000+ (2006)[1] |
| Affiliations | AFL-CIO, CLC |
| Website | www.cwa-union.org |
Communications Workers of America (CWA) is the largest communications and media labor union in the United States (the union also has locals in Canada), representing over 700,000 workers in both the private and public sectors. CWA is headquartered in Washington, DC and affiliated with the AFL-CIO, the Canadian Labour Congress, and Union Network International. The current president is Larry Cohen, a member of the AFL-CIO Executive Council.
CWA's roots lie in the organizing of telephone workers into the National Federation of Telephone Workers, founded in 1938. After losing a strike with AT&T in 1947, the federation reorganized as CWA, a truly national union, which affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1949.In 1994 the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians merged with the CWA and became The Broadcasting and Cable Television Workers Sector of the CWA, NABET-CWA. Since 1997, it includes The Newspaper Guild, and since 2000 it includes Human Rights Watch's support staff. In 2004, the Association of Flight Attendants merged with CWA, and became formally known as the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, or AFA-CWA.
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