CWA Members Fight Off Plans to Reorganize Their Union

Plans to restructure the Communications Workers of America evoked tense, spirited debate but failed to gain traction at the union’s constitutional convention this week.

The CWA’s delegates were faced with multiple union-altering member proposals that would have dissolved the union’s Telecom & Technology Sector as well as its Public, Health Care and Education Workers Sector. Both failed after delegates narrowly moved to suspend debate indefinitely on the proposals.

A third plan, to dissolve the union’s Printing, Publishing and Media Workers Sector, passed without much contention after the sectors’ members reached an agreement with the union on the matter days before ...