Communications Workers of America Photographs: Part I, Photographic Prints. Bulk, 1960-1988 1915-1988, (Bulk 1960s-1980s)

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Communications Workers of America Photographs: Part I, Photographic Prints. Bulk, 1960-1988 1915-1988, (Bulk 1960s-1980s)

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The Communications Workers of America (CWA) was founded in 1947 as an industrial union of telephone industry workers. Its first president was Joseph A. Beirne. During the next twenty-five years the CWA moved aggressively to organize all the telephone workers in the United States. It was not until 1974, however, after years of labor-management unrest and a series of strikes, that American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T), then the United States’ major telecommunications company, agreed to system-wide collective bargaining. In the 1980s the CWA began to expand beyond telecommunications. By the 2000s the CWA had become one of the United States' largest and strongest unions, with more than 600,000 members. The CWA photographs collection consists of approximately 4,300 prints black and white prints mostly shot between the 1960s and the 1980s. Most of the images are individual and group images of the union’s officers, and officers and members at CWA meetings, conference, and conventions and international union conventions and congresses, reflecting the union’s regional presence as well as its participation in Cold War politics. Also represented are photographs of showing the union’s leaders posed with prominent American politicians, officials, and with other labor leaders. A smaller, but significant number of images document bargaining, strikes, demonstrations, and parades, members at work, and changes in telecommunications technology.

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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