Folks,  Greetings from the Burgh, where I spent most of the day sleeping after pulling a marathon session covering the CWA Convention. (Be sure to check out our coverage here) 160,000 SAG-AFTRA Could Strike Tomorrow at Midnight Over 160,000 SAG-AFTRA members could go on strike at

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

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

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