A brief review of who we are and what we do.

CWA, the largest telecommunications union in North America, represents 630,000 workers in public and private employment, including 500,000 workers building the information highway. More than 1200 chartered CWA local unions are affiliated.  Members work and live in some 10,000 communities throughout the U.S. and Canada.

CWA members are employed in telecommunications, printing and news media, public service, health care, cable television, general manufacturing, electronics, gas and electric utilities, as well as other related fields.

CWA holds over 1,000 collective bargaining agreements spelling out wages, benefits, and working conditions for its members. Among the major employers of CWA members are AT&T, Lucent Technologies, the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOC's), GTE. NBC, and ABC television networks, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the state of New Jersey, and leading newspaper publishers throughout the U.S.

We at Local 1062 hope you find our web site interesting and use the links we have provided to better your understanding of how and why organized labor remains to be crucial to the success of working families nationwide.