Why Organize?

Interested in getting a real voice in your workplace?

If you are, then CWA, the Communications Workers of America, can help you and your co-workers build the majority support that you will need to organize your union.

Getting union representation is the best way to gain the working conditions that you and your co-workers deserve. With a union, you have the legal right to bargain over your pay, benefits, employment security, health and safety, and retirement, etc. A union also gives you the ability to negotiate over company policies that affect promotions, job bidding, layoffs, and many other aspects of your job.

Having a union and the right to bargain collectively with your employer is not some old-fashioned idea that’s time has come and gone. Top executives of every major corporation negotiate their own compensation, retirement and severance packages with the companies for which they work.

Through CWA, you and your co-workers will have the same ability to improve your working conditions.

Who we are

CWA represents more than 700,000 men and women in both the private and public sectors of the economy – in telecommunications and information technology; media and publishing; health care, higher education, law enforcement and public service; in the airlines and in manufacturing. CWA members are covered by over 2,000 collective bargaining agreements.

We’ll help you create your organization

Experience tells us that it’s best when workers organize themselves if they are to create a viable union that truly represents their wishes. CWA will provide you and your co-workers with the support and guidance that you will need to build your own effective workplace organization. Talk with your co-workers and identify your key workplace issues. Then call CWA. We will set up a meeting with you and your co-workers.

Contact us

Send us an e-mail, and a CWA organizer will contact you. You may also call us at, 918-665-6012.