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- Get Involved: Join Upcoming No Kings Protests in Your Area
- CWA Members at AT&T Orange Mobility Build Power With Informational Pickets
- CWA Legislative-Political Team Launches New Bootcamp and Congressional Scorecard
- NABET-CWA Members Take Demands Directly to Nexstar Shareholders
- Judge Rules in Favor of Radio Free Asia Members, Voice of America Workers
- Video Game Developers Secure Voluntary Union Recognition
- Fortune Finds a Way…and a Contract
- CWA Youth Service Workers Mobilize for a Fair Contract
- And More…
Get Involved: Join Upcoming No Kings Protests in Your Area
On March 28, CWAers will gather again with our allies at events across the country to make it clear that America does not belong to greedy billionaires or those who govern through fear. It belongs to the people.
The wealth hoarders are pushing hard to dismantle union contracts, gut worker protections, and stop future workers from ever having a voice in their pay, benefits, or retirement. While working people struggle with skyrocketing gas, food, and medical costs, billionaires are raking in record profits through tax breaks and other schemes.
We deserve strong union contracts and protections, affordable healthcare, a good retirement, and to feel safe in our communities. We want to fix our tax system so that the rich pay their fair share and corporations aren’t rewarded for sending jobs overseas.
Click here to find a march location near you.
While CWA is a proud No Kings partner with dozens of other labor, community, civil rights, and religious organizations, CWA is not a financial sponsor of the event.
CWA Members at AT&T Orange Mobility Build Power With Informational Pickets
With a contract expiration date looming, AT&T Orange Mobility members participated in informational pickets across the country to show that we are ready to do what it takes to get a strong contract. Some of the Locals involved include CWA Locals 1101, 4900, 4603, 4202, 4100, 4320, 4008, 7250, and 9333.
On February 20, members initiated a strike authorization vote, with voting ending on March 18. This strike authorization vote is a strategic, power-building moment in our escalation plan. A YES vote will demonstrate our collective power.
The CWA bargaining committee has agreed to another two-week extension with AT&T. The updated contract expiration date is Friday, March 20.
CWA Legislative-Political Team Launches New Bootcamp and Congressional Scorecard
CWA’s Legislative-Political program kicked off the 2026 Political Bootcamp trainings last month, with educational sessions being held in Colorado, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia. Trainees undergo three full days of classes on subjects including fundraising for the Political Action Fund, organizing their coworkers, and deep analysis of legislative sessions and pertinent bills impacting CWAers and other workers. Between class sessions, members put this knowledge to use through hands-on fundraising and legislative and political actions.
Congratulations to our legislative-political bootcamp participants!
These members play a critical role in helping move our worker-first political agenda forward and holding our elected officials accountable. Want to know how your senator or representative is doing on CWA members’ legislative priorities?
The Legislative-Political Team has released our CWA Congressional Scorecard. The scorecard tracks major votes on issues like lowering costs for working families, defending our freedom to join a union, protecting Social Security, and safeguarding our democracy. For example, you can see how lawmakers voted on measures like the FY 2025 Budget Resolution, which laid the groundwork for deep cuts to programs working families rely on, and other bills that impact workers’ rights and economic security.
You can also view each lawmaker’s lifetime score, which shows how they’ve voted on workers’ issues over the course of their career in Congress, based on votes tracked since 2019.
Check out the scorecard to see how your members of Congress are voting on the issues that matter most to working people and where they stand when it counts!
NABET-CWA Members Take Demands Directly to Nexstar Shareholders
On Monday, NABET-CWA members launched a shareholder campaign to bring independent leadership to Nexstar Media Group’s Board of Directors, currently chaired by CEO Perry Sook. Members are calling for the board to appoint an independent director without a history on the board as an executive officer. NABET-CWA, which represents workers at several Nexstar-owned television stations, is a long-term stakeholder in the company and seeks to improve governance so local TV stations can survive and thrive in the future.
“Nexstar’s board lacks independent leadership from Chair and CEO Perry Sook, contributing to a record of governance problems that are harmful to shareholders,” wrote NABET-CWA President Charlie Braico in a statement. “Despite strong shareholder support for an independent board chair, the company has delayed implementation of this policy as a condition of its employment agreement with Sook, and the board has not even appointed a lead independent director.”
Click here to read more about NABET-CWA’s proposals to the Nexstar shareholders.
Judge Rules in Favor of Radio Free Asia Members, Voice of America Workers
This past weekend, D.C. federal judge Royce Lamberth ruled that the actions taken by Kari Lake—senior adviser for the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM)—since March 2025 are legally void. That includes the elimination of hundreds of jobs at Voice of America (VOA) in August and eliminating congressionally-mandated grants which funded journalists at Radio Free Asia, represented by the Washington-Baltimore News Guild Local 32035. Lamberth ruled that Lake had acted unlawfully in running the network’s parent agency.
A coalition of 13 plaintiffs, consisting of federal worker unions, individual employees, and press freedom organizations, filed the lawsuit. The four union plaintiffs representing USAGM employees are the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; the American Federation of Government Employees; the American Foreign Service Association; and The NewsGuild-CWA.
“It turns out Kari Lake and the president have to follow the law. Congress and the president approved funding, and Lake illegally withheld it and acted as a de facto CEO when she wasn’t. Lake’s illegal cuts have made the world worse off because she’s cut journalism that would be going to parts of the world that need it now: Iran, North Korea, China, Vietnam, and more. The cuts are embarrassing and shameful. We appreciate Judge Lamberth’s ruling in favor of the law and international journalism,” said NewsGuild-CWA President Jon Schleuss.
Click here to read the full CWA press release.
Video Game Developers Secure Voluntary Union Recognition
A supermajority of developers at independent video game studio Heart Machine have formed a wall-to-wall union with CWA Local 9003 to better advocate for their rights and benefits. Workers at the LA-based studio, responsible for Hyper Light Drifter and Solar Ash, presented management with the request for voluntary recognition, which was granted.
“I decided to get involved in organizing my studio because I’ve seen so many peers in the industry stand up to protect the craft we all care so deeply about. Watching that momentum grow made me realize that if we love this work, we have to protect it, especially now,” said CWA Local 9003 member and Heart Machine Gameplay Tools Engineer Steph Aligbe. “We are proud that our studio chose to voluntarily recognize our union and live up to its high-road labor values, and we look forward to working on a first contract that safeguards our workplace.”
Video game workers in the U.S. and Canada are able to join CWA’s direct-join formation, United Videogame Workers-CWA Local 9433, a training ground that has helped workers build the skills and relationships needed to organize their own studios regardless of current job status or employer.
Read the full press release here.
Fortune Finds a Way…and a Contract
Last week, members of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild (TNG-CWA Local 37082) ratified a 2-year first contract with the Anchorage Daily News. This marks the first union contract at an Alaska news publication.
The contract guarantees minimum salaries, salary increases tied to company revenue, and workplace protections for journalists. Union members include reporters, photojournalists, copy editors, online producers, web developers, and graphic designers.
“I’m grateful to my colleagues and to management that we were able to come together, bargain in good faith, and work towards a contract reflecting both our aspirations for the organization as well as the realities facing it. It’s a hard time for journalism,” said reporter Zachariah Hughes.
Click here to read more about this historic contract.
The news from Anchorage came only weeks after another NewsGuild-CWA first at the New York financial magazine, Fortune, where members of the Fortune Union (NewsGuild-CWA Local 31003) ratified their first union contract earlier this week. The contract covers both digital and print employees and lifts wages a total of 11 percent for the life of the deal, sets new salary standards, provides job security protections, and more.
“We are so excited to finally have a fair contract after a long battle,” said Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Union’s unit chair. “Our union has repeatedly come together in tough times—including after a mass layoff over the summer reduced our unit size by one-third—to fight for the well-being of our newsroom. The efforts to secure this contract were no exception.”
The contract is the culmination of a multiyear campaign, which includes a 24-hour work stoppage in March 2021, a conference strike threat in August 2021, and a September 2023 lunch-out, among other collective actions.
You can read more about this contract here.
Congratulations to our members at the Anchorage Daily News and Fortune magazine!
CWA Youth Service Workers Mobilize for a Fair Contract
Earlier this month, members of CWA Local 1037 working at Bergen’s Promise, a non-profit care management organization in New Jersey, sent a strong message of solidarity to company management with a petition, signed by 97 percent of the workers, calling on the company to bargain in good faith. They also held a sticker action with messages for company management and will continue to mobilize until a fair contract is on the table. Members have been negotiating since December for salary increases, affordable healthcare, and a better work-life balance.
Members provide care management services and coordinate an array of community-based resources for youth ages 5-21 and their families. The youth they serve have behavioral, emotional, mental health, and substance abuse issues and/or developmental disabilities.
CWA Local 1037 members at Bergen’s Promise signed a petition and engaged in a sticker action to show their solidarity during contract negotiations. Members provide care for at-risk youth.
And More…
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