CWA District 7 Activists Attend Training on Building an Anti-Racist Union

A group of CWA activists from District 7 participated in the CWA Human Rights and Anti-Racism training last week in Denver, Colo. The training is part of our union’s ongoing efforts to live up to the commitment by the CWA Executive Board, in response to the national uprisings following the murder of George Floyd, to create dedicated spaces for open dialogue on race for our members and leaders. The discussions help determine outcomes and clear steps the union and members must take to fight racism in the union, within the industries we represent, and in the community at large. The training focused on recognizing implicit bias, how to actively dismantle racist systems, ideas, and practices, and how to form local human rights committees. The participants, who came from 10 different locals, plan to continue to create similar spaces in their own locals and locals in their area for members to discuss how to build an anti-racist union.