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“Our Plan to Win”: CWA Healthcare Worker Town Hall Assess Staffing, Plans for the Road Ahead

CWA District 1 represents more than 15,000 healthcare workers across New York and New Jersey who know better than anyone that our healthcare workforce is in crisis, and that understaffing has dire consequences for both workers and patients.

“Our Plan to Win”: CWA Healthcare Worker Town Hall Assess Staffing, Plans for the Road Ahead

Graduate Workers Demand Education Funding

Graduate workers at the State University of New York (SUNY) Albany, members of the CWA Local 1104 Graduate Student Employees Union (GSEU) mobilized on October 26th to demand an immediate halt to the university's plans to merge the Africana Studies and Latin American, Caribbean and U.S.

Graduate Workers Demand Education Funding

Applications Open for the Joe Beirne Scholarship

Applications are now being accepted through April 30th, 2024, for one of sixteen Joe Beirne Scholarships of $4,000 each for the 2024-2025 school year. Click here to apply.

Applications Open for the Joe Beirne Scholarship

Testimony: U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions

Testimony: U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions

Broadband Brigade Update - October 2023

Broadband Brigade Update

District 1's Broadband Brigade, made up of telecom workers throughout New York and Connecticut, is growing by the week with more and more members joining the fight to expand broadband access in our communities built with union labor! 

Broadband Brigade Update - October 2023

State Workers in New Jersey Ratify New Contract!

Several months of tough negotiations and strong mobilization throughout New Jersey, workers in CWA Locals 1031, 1032, 1033, 1036, 1037, 1038, and 1040 voted to ratify their 2023-2027 contract by a count of 94.01% to 5.99%.

State Workers in New Jersey Ratify New Contract!