The Communications Workers of America (CWA) is the largest communications and media labor union in the United States, represting about 700, 000 members in both the private and public sectors (also in Canada and Puerto Rico).
The union has 27 locals in Canada via CWA-SCA Canada (Frch: Syndicat des communications d'Amérique) represting about 8, 000 members. CWA has several affiliated subsidiary labor unions bringing total membership to over 700, 000. CWA is headquartered in Washington, DC, and affiliated with the AFL–CIO, the Strategic Organizing Cter,
In 1918 telephone operators organized under the Telephone Operators Departmt of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. While initially successful at organizing, the union was damaged by a 1923 strike and subsequt AT&T lockout. After AT&T installed company-controlled Employees' Committees, the Telephone Operators Departmt evtually disbanded.
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The CWA's roots lie in the 1938 reorganization of telephone workers into the National Federation of Telephone Workers after the Wagner Act outlawed such employees' committees or company unions. NFTW was a federation of sovereign local indepdt unions that lacked authority over the affiliated local unions leaving it at a serious organizational disadvantage. After losing a strike with AT&T in 1947, the federation led by Joseph A. Beirne,
Reorganized as CWA, a truly national union, which affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1949. The union's Canadian members split away in 1972, forming the Communication Workers of Canada.
CWA has continued to expand into areas beyond traditional telephone service. 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 (now ramed The NewsGuild-CWA). In 2004, the Association of Flight Attdants merged with CWA, and became formally known as the Association of Flight Attdants-CWA, or AFA-CWA. In 2020 CWA launched the Campaign to Organize Digital Employees (CODE-CWA) initiative to unionize tech, video game, and digital workers which has led to CWA becoming a major union for US and Canada tech worker organizing,
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Strike was in answer to managemt's effort to prohibit workers from striking. An expsive strike due to significant number of illegal firings and civil suits from Southern Bell. Out of 200 fired strikers, 150 were reinstated following legal action, with over $200, 000 in back pay awarded.
1983 AT&T strike: Last contract with the Bell System before its breakup. Bell System sought givebacks. The contract resulted in Wage increases, employmt security, psion, and health improvemts.
Strike was due to major wage and health care cuts by Verizon, a forced pay-for-performance plan and movemt-of-work job security provisions. Contract extded.
Reinhard Ray Rudersdorfer
According to CWA's Departmt of Labor records since 2006, wh membership classifications were first reported, the total reported membership has varied greatly and unpredictably due to the addition and removal of reported membership categories.
As of 2014, around 27%, or a fourth, of the union's total membership are classified as non-dues-paying retirees, and not eligible to vote in the union. The other, voting eligible, classifications are active (65%) and dues-paying retired (8%). CWA contracts also cover some non-members, known as agcy fee payers, which number comparatively about 7% of the size of the union's membership. This accounts for 166, 491 non-dues-paying retirees and 52, 240 dues-paying retirees, plus about 43, 353 non-members paying agcy fees, compared to 404, 289 active members.
According to CWA's Departmt of Labor records since 2006, wh membership classifications were first reported, the total reported membership has varied greatly and unpredictably due to the addition and removal of reported membership categories.
As of 2014, around 27%, or a fourth, of the union's total membership are classified as non-dues-paying retirees, and not eligible to vote in the union. The other, voting eligible, classifications are active (65%) and dues-paying retired (8%). CWA contracts also cover some non-members, known as agcy fee payers, which number comparatively about 7% of the size of the union's membership. This accounts for 166, 491 non-dues-paying retirees and 52, 240 dues-paying retirees, plus about 43, 353 non-members paying agcy fees, compared to 404, 289 active members.
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