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CWA

American  
  1. Civil Works Administration.

  2. Communications Workers of America.


CWA British  

abbreviation

  1. Country Women's Association

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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

Nearly 3,000 workers at Microsoft-owned studios have unionized with CWA thus far, according to union spokesperson Sean Nesmith.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025

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

This change in the CWA will not alter the regulatory landscape in King County at this point, as local regulations are much more protective than the federal laws that govern activity in and around wetlands.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 27, 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