Political Action Update: Fighting for Elected Leaders Who Stand with Workers!

Buffalo, NY

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The race for Mayor of the city of Buffalo is on, and CWA members have been turning out over the last several weeks to help elect a longtime legislative friend to CWA, Sean Ryan. 

On June 7th members of CWA Locals 1122, 1133, and 1168 joined Senator Ryan and other union members from throughout Western NY to rally and then knock on doors to talk to voters about a candidate who has never wavered in his dedication to union members.

Among Senator Ryan’s accomplishments in the NYS Senate and Assembly, he’s led the fight to pass several major pieces of legislation that have had a direct impact on our members:

• Shortening the waiting time for striking workers to receive Unemployment from seven weeks to just two (the first group of strikers to benefit from this new law? CWA Local 1133 members on strike at Mercy Hospital in 2021)
• Protecting call center jobs from outsourcing

Primary Election Day is coming up on Tuesday, June 24.
 

New Jersey

As one of only two states in the country with elections for statewide offices this year, all eyes are on New Jersey, and CWA members have already turned out in droves to fight for candidates who have proved that they will fight for us - especially critical in the midst of CWA’s campaign to stop and contain rising healthcare costs.

Over the last several weeks leading up to yesterdays Primary Election Day, CWA members have hit the pavement up and down the state to knock on doors and speak with voters about candidates in the NJ State Assembly and ensure that we have a State legislature that will prioritize our needs.

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​CWAers were instrumental in helping every one of our primary candidates winning their elections last night!