Members

CWA represents workers in private and public sector employment in 1,200 chartered CWA local unions. CWA members work in communications and information industries, the news media, the airlines, broadcast and cable television, public service, higher education and health care, manufacturing, in high tech and more.

Collective Bargaining

Among CWA major employers are AT&T; Verizon; General Electric; the New York Times and Wall Street Journal; United Airlines and American Airlines; NBC and ABC television networks; the Canadian Broadcasting Co.; the University of California, and the state of New Jersey.

Leadership

CWA’s top elected officers are President Claude Cummings Jr. and Secretary-Treasurer Ameenah Salaam. Other members on CWA’s Executive Board, which governs the union between conventions, are: Vice Presidents Dennis Trainor, District 1 (New York); Mike Davis, District 2-13 (Philadelphia); Richard Honeycutt, District 3 (Atlanta); Linda Hinton, District 4 (Cleveland); Derrick Osobase, District 6 (Austin); Susie McAllister, District 7 (Denver); and Frank Arce, District 9 (Sacramento).

Also on the Executive Board are the vice presidents of CWA’s sectors and industries and other leaders: Lisa Bolton, Telecommunications & Technologies; Margaret Cook, Public, Health Care and Education Workers; Charles Braico, Broadcast and Cable Television Workers Sector; Jon Schleuss, The Newspaper Guild-CWA; Carl Kennebrew, IUE-CWA Industrial Division; Sara Nelson, Association of Flight Attendants-CWA; and Martin O’Hanlon, Director, TNG-SCA Canada. At-large diversity members of the executive board are Gloria Middleton, Northeast region; Vera Mikell, Southeast region; Reginald Small, Central region.