CWA District 7 Hosts Annual Conference

From May 3 to May 5, members, staff, and retirees from CWA District 7 gathered in Park City, Utah, for their annual conference. Attendees celebrated victories, shared skills, and strategized for the upcoming year. The meeting also included workshops and breakout sessions dedicated to such topics as telecom organizing, environmental justice, and fighting oligarchy.

During the opening session, attendees heard from several speakers, including CWA President Claude Cummings Jr.; CWA District 7 Vice President Susie McAllister; Public, Healthcare, and Education Workers Vice President Margaret Cook; Summit County Council Member Megan McKenna; and Central Utah Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO President Brandon Dew.

President Cummings spoke passionately about the work happening within our union, saying, “We are waging battles over BEAD funding and broadband buildouts. We are winning strong language on artificial intelligence to protect our workers in industries from tech to journalism to video gaming. We are winning protections for our healthcare workers so they have the staffing levels and security they need to do their jobs and get home safely after their shift is over. But, more than this, we are defending our shared values of equality, fairness, and justice. And we are fighting for what matters most to us.”

Attendees also heard directly from CWA Local 7250 officers about their Local’s fight against the illegal occupation of Minnesota communities by federal troops.

“We all need to ramp up our efforts to defend elections from interference and be prepared to fight,” said Vice President McAllister, “just as every day Minnesotans have done—with everything at our disposal. Our union needs to unlock the resources we have in order to fight back—not just defending ourselves from attack, but also building the world and workplaces we want to see.”

 
CWA members, staff, and retirees gathered in Utah for the CWA District 7 Annual Conference. In the photo above, attendees held up fists of resistance, joined by CWA District 7 Vice President Susie McAllister (at center in pink) and CWA President Claude Cummings Jr (right of McAllister in black).

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This post originally appeared on cwa-union.org.