CWA Local 1123 Expands their Legislative & Political Action Work to Build Our Political Power

The most important work we do as a union is at the bargaining table, gaining better wages, working conditions, and terms of employment for our members. But again and again, we see how advances made at the bargaining table can be lost through a single action of Congress or a state legislature. Other times, we can’t win what we need at the bargaining table alone—we need to work with pro-labor champions in elected office and win pro-worker legislation.

That’s where the years of dedicated work by our Legislative & Political Action Team (LPAT) members comes in, helping shape the democratic process and the laws that directly impact our lives, jobs, and contracts. Last November, CWAers helped send one of our own, former Local 1123 President Chris Ryan, to the New York State Senate, and now the Local is building on that political action momentum and expanding their LPAT as we gear up for another big legislative year in 2026 followed by Midterm Elections at the end of next year. The newly expanded LPAT held their first big meeting on September 23rd, making plans for wider member recruitment and trainings over the next year.