Folks,  Claude Cummings was elected the 1st Black President of the 600,000-member Communication Workers of America early Tuesday morning. While the heavily white labor press covered extensively reform victories by white candidates in the Teamsters and UAW, only two publications on the left to even wrote articles about his

Early Tuesday morning, CWA announced that Claude Cummings of Houston won a runoff election over Ed Mooney by a margin of 59% to 41% to be elected as the 1st Black President of the 600,000-member Communication Workers of America. Congresswoman Shelia Jackson-Lee of Houston took to Twitter at 2

Top NewsGuild official in CWA Sara Steffens, defeated amid scandals involving the cover-up of sexual misconduct & violent intimidation in CWA, which was credited with sinking her campaign. Cummings currently leads Mooney by a margin of 139,818 to 121,857. (Election results can be viewed here). It remains unclear

PITTSBURGH, PA – As over 1,000 union delegates of the Communication Workers of America meet this week at its union convention in St. Louis to elect its President, the union leadership is failing to comply with a legal deadline to produce documents as part of discovery in a high-profile sexual