CWAers Declare: No Kings! During Nationwide Day of Protest

Earlier this month, CWA members and retirees across the country joined millions of others at No Kings events to protest attacks on our jobs and our freedom to bargain contracts.

Billionaires who have bought and bribed their way to power in Washington are working to dismantle our collective bargaining agreements and gut laws that protect our safety at work and workers’ ability to form unions.

The Trump administration has already shredded the union contracts of more than a million federal workers. They have left 17 million people without health care coverage and driven up insurance costs for all of us. They are deploying federal troops to intimidate peaceful protestors.

Their policies are designed to take power from the people and transfer trillions of dollars from programs that benefit working people, retirees, and children into tax cuts for the super-rich and more avenues for corporations to exploit workers.

CWA endorsed the No Kings 2 protest, adding to it our call to boycott T-Mobile for its pervasive union-busting and partnership with Trump ally and anti-union activist Elon Musk and his Starlink service.

CWA District 6 Vice President Derrick Osobase fired up a crowd in Austin, Texas, telling them, “Democracy doesn’t come easy. You are going to have to put something on the line.”

Click here to watch excerpts from his speech.

 
CWA members, staff, retirees, volunteers, and allies participated in peaceful protests against President Donald Trump’s attacks on workers and consolidation of power. Pictured (clockwise from top left) activists from CWA District 1; CWA President Claude Cummings Jr.; members from IUE-CWA; CWA District 7; CWA District 9; along with CWA District 6 Vice President Derrick Osobase; and CWA District 4 Vice President Linda L. Hinton.

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This post originally appeared on cwa-union.org.