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CWA

American  
  1. Civil Works Administration.

  2. Communications Workers of America.


CWA British  

abbreviation

  1. Country Women's Association

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“Today, quality customer service and call center jobs are threatened not just by offshoring, but also by corporate cost-cutting through the use of AI agents,” CWA President Claude Cummings Jr. said earlier this month.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

From Blizzard Entertainment hundreds of World of Warcraft specialists and dozens of Texas-based quality-assurance testers respectively organized guilds under the CWA, following Bethesda’s lead.

From Slate • Jul. 30, 2024

CWA officials said they were disheartened by the Teamsters’ settlement.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 15, 2024

CWA President Claude Cummings Jr. called the acquisition, finalized on Friday, a “new day for workers at Activision Blizzard.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2023

PPC activist Karen Szczepanski, 67, lives in Montclair and has been a lifelong labor activist working with the CWA, HPAE, the state's largest nurses' union and then with 1199SEIU.

From Salon • Jun. 28, 2023

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