About Us

Communications Workers of America

Members

CWA represents 700,000 workers in private and public sector employment in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico in 1,200 chartered CWA local unions. In 10,000 communities across the United States, CWA members work in telecommunications and information technology, the airline industry, news media, broadcast and cable television, education, health care and public service, law enforcement, manufacturing and other fields.

Collective Bargaining

Among CWA major employers are AT&T; Verizon; General Electric; the New York Times and Wall Street Journal; United Airlines and American Airlines; NBC and ABC television networks; the Canadian Broadcasting Co.; the University of California, the state of New Jersey and various law enforcement agencies across the country.

Leadership

CWA’s Nationally elected officers are President Chris Shelton and Secretary-Treasurer Sara Steffens. Other members on CWA’s executive board, which governs the union between conventions, are: Vice Presidents Dennis Trainor, District 1 (New York); Ed Mooney, District 2-13 (Philadelphia); Richard Honeycutt, District 3 (Atlanta); Linda Hinton, District 4 (Cleveland); Claude Cummings, District 6 (Austin); Brenda Roberts, District 7 (Denver); and Tom Runnion, District 9 (Sacramento).

Also on the Executive Board are the vice presidents of CWA’s sectors and industries and other leaders: Lisa Bolton, Telecommunications & Technologies; Brooks Sunkett, Public, Health Care and Education Workers; Charles Braico, Broadcast and Cable Television Workers Sector; Bernie Lunzer, The Newspaper Guild-CWA; Jim Clark, IUE-CWA Industrial Division; Sara Nelson, Association of Flight Attendants-CWA; Martin O’Hanlon, Director, TNG-SCA Canada; and Dan Wasser, executive officer, Printing and Media Workers Sector. At-large diversity members of the executive board are Carolyn Wade, Northeast region; Vera Mikell, Southeast region; Anetra Session, Central region; Frank Arce, Western region.

CWA Local 6327 Executive Board

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Tanya Holmes

President

Tanya began volunteering and working as a labor activist at the start of her career with Legacy AT&T in 1996. After the start of her career with Southwestern Bell Telephone, she volunteered on CWA Local 6327 committees such as the legislative and finance before becoming a union steward in 2004. She was then appointed acting chief steward in 2005 and then subsequently elected as Secretary-Treasurer in 2006. After a brief lay-off due to a departmental closure in 2018, Tanya was once again elected as Secretary-Treasurer in 2020; then President of the Local in 2024. She is currently a WFH Premier Service Consultant for the AT&T Mobility Consumer Sales & Service Organization.

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Byron L. Hoskins

Vice President

Byron has been an AT&T/Broadband Tech Care employee since 2015. He worked for AT&T Long Distance in 1995, now known as Legacy T, where after a temporary leave returned to work with DirecTV in 2012. He was a part of the CWA organizing team with DirecTV as the AT&T aquisition began. He served as a Mobilizer, Steward, Chief Steward, Legislative Activist, and is now Vice President for CWA Local 6327. He is a Premier Service Consultant for the AT&T Mobility Broadband Tech Care call center.

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Neesha Ewell

Secretary-Treasurer

Neesha entered the local as a technical support representative with DirecTV starting in 2008. She immediately began volunteering and working with the organizing committee that was charged with organizing the DirecTV division in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Since that time Neesha has remained active with the local in roles as committee member, steward then chief steward before being elected as the local's Secretary-Treasurer in 2024. Neesha is currently employed with AT&T Mobility's Broad Band Tech Care division as a Premier Service Consultant.

Stewards

Jackie Arnette, AT&T/Broadband Tech Care - Steward.

JArnette@cwalocal6327.com