Keith Allred dropped in at the hall on Wednesday and received a check for $5000. From left: President Brent Duvall, EVP Mike Frost, Keith Allred, Staff rep Susie McAllister

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CWA-COPE is the political action committee for the working men and women of CWA, their families and retirees. CWA-COPE informs and mobilizes union families to encourage their participation in the political process. Through their political action committee, CWA men and women express their voice in politics and policy issues that affect their lives.

Funded by the voluntary contributions of CWA members, their family members and retirees, CWA-COPE provides financial contributions to worker-friendly candidates. CWA can only use voluntary dollars to contribute to an endorsed candidate for federal office. No union dues money of any kind can be given to a political candidate for federal office or national political party.

CWA-COPE also provides information to union families about the candidates and their positions on the issues affecting their lives. Decent health care, overtime pay, safe working conditions, family-friendly workplaces, retirement security, freedom to organize are among the concerns influenced by the political process. CWA-COPE endorses candidates regardless of political party who supports working families.

Working families can never match the contributions of Corporate America or the wealthy. Together we can combine our financial and voluntary resources to make a real difference in hundreds of key elections at the federal, state and local level. CWA-COPE offers workers the power to gain the attention of lawmakers to their agenda.

In a representative democracy, many voices speaking together are louder than a single voice talking alone. Just as union representation gives workers a voice on the job to improve their lives, CWA-COPE is the workers voice in politics to improve their communities and nation. CWA-COPE makes politics work for working families.

Click below to donate online. CWA members, their family members and retirees are eligible to contribute to CWA-COPE. If you would prefer to send us your credit card information through the mail, please click here to download a form.

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Members who contribute $52 a year or more receive a special thank you gift.

Monthly contributors may stop their monthly credit card contribution at any time. To stop your credit card contribution, click here to fill out our form or call the CWA-COPE department at 202-434-1491.

Federal law prohibits CWA or CWA COPE PCC from soliciting contributions from persons other than CWA members, CWA executive and administrative personnel, and their families. Any contribution received from any other source will be returned to the contributor.

Federal Government	www.usa.gov
President Barack Obama	US Department of Labor Website
Vice-President Joe Biden	Transition Team Website
Senator Mike Crapo	Senator Jim Risch
Representative Walt Minnick	Representative Mike Simpson
State Government	www.state.id.us
Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter	Lt. Governor Brad Little
Secretary of State Ben Ysursa	State Controller Donna Jones
Attorney General Lawrence Wasden	State Superintendent Tom Luna
State Treasurer Ron Crane
State Senate	State House of Representatives
County Government	County Clerks Listing
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Through this online hub you will be able to learn where the candidates stand on critical CWA issues, participate in surveys and straw polls, and take action.

In 1960, CWA took the bold and unusual step of establishing Operation South America (OSA). The purpose was to provide financial, technical, and material support to workers in different countries in Central and South America, the Caribbean area as well as to the Cuban Telephone Workers in Exile. In 1961, the program proved so successful that we made it an ongoing CWA-wide program. In recent years the program has been renamed the Eduardo Diaz Union-To-Union International Solidarity Fund.

The structure of Operation South America has been from the beginning straightforward and simple. Small project plans are developed by the regional office of the Communications International (C.I.) and put before CWA Districts. Each participating District selects a project to sponsor. The funded unions or activists, in turn, provide periodic activity reports. C.I. verifies implementation and CWA staff monitors overall performance. The modest contributions provided by OSA have in many instances sustained struggling unions and kept them afloat.

Much has happened in the world since OSA was started. No one could have imagined the power and clout of the multinationals, the rapid globalization of the workplace, the exploitation of workers in developing countries by Multinational Corporations, the use of prison and child labor, the historic collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the prominent role which the Polish labor movement played in its demise.

The world is a different place and the needs of labor activists in developing countries, although just as urgent today as in the past, are much broader and more directly intertwined with our own well-being. As difficult as it is to organize unions in many of the countries of the world, it is at least twice as difficult for women to gain a voice on the job. Women have emerged as the most exploited of any group of adult workers.

CWA has always been a leader in International Solidarity. Our work in this area has always been guided by the belief that we can create a better world where all workers, whichever country they live in and whichever industry they are working in, must have the right to join and organize unions.

CWA Local 7603 has continued to be a supporter of the Eduardo Diaz Union-To-Union International Solidarity Fund, and has anually been presented awards for it's continued committment to the program.