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Communications Workers of America

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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Communication Workers of America, is a nonprofit communications and media union that represents more than 700,000 men and women in private and public sectors. CWA holds more than 2,000 collective bargaining agreements spelling out wages, benefits, working conditions and employment security provisions for its members. CWA members are employed in telecommunications, broadcasting, cable TV, journalism, publishing, electronics and general manufacturing, as well as airline customer service, government service, health care and education. The union includes approximately 1,200 chartered local unions throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, and members live in nearly 10,000 communities. Among major employers of CWA members are AT&T, GTE, the Regional Bell telephone companies, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs, General Electric, NBC and ABC television networks, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.; major papers such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post; US Airways, University of California and the state of New Jersey. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., CWA also maintains regional district headquarters in New York City, Philadelphia, Silver Spring, Md., Atlanta, Cleveland, Austin, Denver and San Francisco. CWA staff members, working out of 50 field offices, assist local unions with contract negotiations, officer and steward training, organizing, legislative and community programs and day-to-day member representation.

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