{"id":191,"date":"2026-06-13T00:24:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T05:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/?p=191"},"modified":"2026-06-13T00:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T05:26:09","slug":"cwa-hosts-presidents-meeting-and-legislative-and-political-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/cwa-hosts-presidents-meeting-and-legislative-and-political-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"CWA Hosts Presidents\u2019 Meeting and Legislative and Political Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last week, CWA members and retirees from across the country gathered in Washington, D.C., for two events: the Presidents\u2019 Meeting and the Legislative and Political Conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CWA Local presidents and members of the CWA Executive Board began with the Presidents\u2019 Meeting on Monday, June 1. CWA President Claude Cummings Jr. updated attendees on the current state of our union and plans for continued organizing in our core telecommunications sector. Presidents had the chance to debate and vote on pressing issues from the Credentials, Appeals, and Finance committees. CWA Secretary-Treasurer Ameenah Salaam also delivered her Financial Report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following day, President Cummings opened the two-day Legislative and Political (LP) Conference, which featured a host of notable speakers, including House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD-08), Sen. Ruben Gallego (AZ), Rep. Greg Casar (TX-35), and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker. Members also heard from Minnesota Representative and AFA-CWA member Kaela Berg (MN-55B), who is running for Congress in MN-02, campaigning on a pro-union, pro-worker platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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President Cummings spoke fiercely against attempts by the current administration to disenfranchise millions of American voters after the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais. \u201cWe are seeing, in real time, white supremacists gerrymandering Black districts out of existence, stripping voters of their rights,\u201d said Cummings. \u201cAll because they know their anti-worker, anti-family policies will never win votes from the majority of Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou may have heard me say this before, but I keep a slip of paper from the so-called \u2018good old days.\u2019 It\u2019s my father\u2019s poll tax receipt. In those same \u2018good old days,\u2019 Black people who wanted to exercise that most basic right had to pay to be able to vote. Today they call it the SAVE Act, but it\u2019s the same. People who can barely make ends meet being asked to find money for passports and certified birth certificates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe right to vote is precious. It should never be taken for granted, and we should never allow it to be taken away at all. We will not go back to those dark days.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here to watch President Cummings\u2019 Legislative and Political Conference speech in its entirety.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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