Fighting for Good Union Jobs in Broadband Deployment

Over the past year, CWA members fought for and helped secured billions of dollars of federal funding for States to build out broadband to unserved and underserved areas as part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill.

But with big funding dollars comes out of state, fly-by-night contractors looking to make a quick buck with cheap labor - undercutting our union workforce and putting the public at risk with shoddy work. New York State is about to submit its plan to the Federal Government on how to spend this funding, and we need to make sure our recommendations are included so that this work goes to highly-trained, unionized broadband technicians - us!

We’re fighting for:

• Fiber-optic technology wherever and whenever possible!
• Prioritization of high-road employers who have:
  • A directly-employed workforce
  • Robust in-house training
  • Locally based workforce
• Transparent and enforceable workforce plans

>>Sign the petition to help ensure that New York State’s plan on how to spend our broadband dollars includes these proposals!

Alongside the petition signing, CWAers have been speaking with elected officials about the ongoing need to expand broadband throughout our communities and how to ensure that this work is done by union labor.

On September 27th, CWA Local 1170 met with New York State Senator Jeremy Cooney