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Communications Workers of America

This article is about the labor union in the United States. For other uses, see Communication Workers Union.
Communications Workers of America
AbbreviationCWA
PredecessorNational Federation of Telephone Workers
Formation1947 (1947)
TypeTrade union
HeadquartersWashington, D.C., US
Location
    • United States
    • Canada
Membership (2014)
  • 456,529 ("active" and "dues-paying retired" members)
  • 166,491 ("non-dues-paying retired" members)[1]
President
Claude Cummings Jr.
Secretary-treasurer
Ameenah Salaam
Affiliations
Websitecwa-union.org Edit this at Wikidata

The Communications Workers of America (CWA) is the largest communications and media labor union in the United States, representing about 700,000 members in both the private and public sectors (also in Canada and Puerto Rico).[1][2] The union has 27 locals in Canada via CWA-SCA Canada (French: Syndicat des communications d'Amérique) representing 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 Center,[3] the Canadian Labour Congress, and UNI Global Union.

  1. ^ a b US Department of Labor, Office of Labor-Management Standards. File number 000-188. Report submitted August 29, 2014.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "About". Strategic Organizing Center. Retrieved 2021-11-03.

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