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So so were not the old cwa that people think about where it was just telephone employees. Host how is it that you can represent those other people under the umbrella of cwa . Guest well, weve merged a lot of other unions. For instance, the last one we merged was the flight attendants union. And weve represented these folks, for instance, the printers came in to cwa in 1987, and weve been merging other unions since then. Host what are some of the Telecommunications Companies where your workers are represented . Guest at t, frontier, verizon, tmobile, you name it. Host well, speaking of verizon, just a 45day strike just recently ended. What came out of that . First of all, what was the strike about . Guest the strike, from our point of view, was about one thing and one thing only, jobs. And job security. And i think for verizon it was about a lot of things. We managed to come out of it with what we wanted, and i think we did very well. I think verizon also did okay, you know . Were not a
Host David Shelton is president of the Communications Workers of America Union and he is our guest this week on the communicators. Mr. Shelton welcome to cspan. We appreciate your coming over. Give us a snapshot of the cwa if you would. Jaczko we have approximately 700,000 members not only in telecommunications as most people think but in just about every walk of life, every job you could possibly think of. We have reporters, we have nurses, we have even some rocket scientist. We have printers. We have manufacturing folks. You name it we have them. Public workers so we are not the old cwa do people think about where it was just telephone employees. Host how is it that you can represent those other people under the umbrella of cwa . We have merged a lot of other unions for instance the last one we merged with the Flight Attendants Union and we have represented these folks for instance the printers came cwa since 1987 and we have been merging other unions since then. Host what are some t
Co2. For a full schedule, go to cspan. Org. Chris shelton as president of the Communications Workers of America Union and he is our guest this week on the communicators. Welcome to cspan. We have approximately 700,000 members in every walk of life, reporters, nurses, even some rocket scientists in new jersey. We have printers, manufacturing folks, you name it, we have them. We are not the old cwa. How is it you can represent . We have merged a lot of other unions. The last one was the flight attendants union. We have represented these folks. We have been merging other unions. What are some of the other Telecommunications Companies . At t, frontier, verizon, tmobile. Come apeaking of verizon 45 day strike recently ended. What came out of that . What was the strike about . The strike was about one thing and one thing only, jobs and job security. For verizon, it was about a lot of things. We managed to come out of it with what we wanted and i think we did very well. Verizon also did ok. T