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Series XIII: Archived Websites

Extent

13 websites in 13 archived websites.

Scope and Content Note

https://cwa-union.org/ is made up of the CWA newsletter, blog, event listings, press releases, issues and action alerts, and other multimedia. Speed Matters is a project of the CWA to advocate for affordable, high speed internet for universal internet access for all Americans. The website contains the project's principles, benefits to expanded access to high speed internet, publications produced by the project, news, and other organizational partnerships. CWA Political is the website for the CWA Committee on Political Education – Political Contributions Committee. The website contains information on the CWA political action fund, polical activist training materials, listing of endorsed candidates, resources, and their newsletter, CWA Collective Briefing.

StoptheTPP is a project organized by the Communications Workers of America to raise public awareness of and organize opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership on the grounds that the massive trade deal would lead to deregulation that could have negative impacts for workers as well as consumers. The site features fact sheets and educational resources that detail the effects of the TPP across different industries like commercial fishing and pharmaceuticals, news related to ongoing developments, and information about how to get involved in opposition to the deal. As the United States was pulled out of the TPP in 2017, the site is no longer actively updated. T-Mobile Sprint Facts is a project organized by the Communication Workers of America to raise public awareness of and organize opposition to the merger between mobile service providers T-Mobile and Sprint on the grounds that the merger is not in the public interest, that it would result in the loss of retail and communications jobs, that both companies have a history of violating labor and employment laws, and that the proposed benefits (like increased rural coverage) are exaggerated. The site features fact sheets on the impact of the merger in different states and for rural communities, news about ongoing developments, links documents like letters of oppositions by US lawmakers and documentation of regulatory hearings, and a form by which site users can file a public comment opposing the merger.

The CWA Steward Strong Web Portal provides training materials and resources for CWA stewards. It includes PDFs of the Steward Resource Manual, the Steward Participant Workbook, organizing and mobilizing resources, materials for worksite bulletin board, grievance handling resources, being a steward in a workplace without a contract training manual, and a stewards glossary.

Fair 5G is a project of the Communications Workers of America that provides resources for the deployment of wireless networks that supports digital equity, workers' rights and community benefits. It includes news and reports analyzing public-private partnerships on implementing 5G in US cities, the wireless resiliency cooperative framework, small cell deployment, and digital equity.

Build Broadband Better is an online petition created by the Communications Workers of America to support the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to grant states and communities across the United States to build and improve their broadband networks.

The Congressional Vote Scorecard website ranks how current and former United States Congress members voted on key bills important to the CWA. Vote results date back to 2019. The website particularly covers the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act.

Campaign to Organize Digital Employees (CODE-CWA) is an organizing campaign launched by the Communications Workers of America to organize workers in tech, software, video game, and digital industries. CWA successfully organized workers at Glitch, Voltage Entertainment, Blue State, Alphabet, Mobilize, NPR Digital Media, Catalist, Change.org, New York Times Tech, EveryAction, Paizo, Vodeo Games, Raven Software QA, Image Comics, AppFolio, Seven Seas Entertainment, Blizzard Albany QA, The Atlantic Business & Tech departments, Tender Claws, and Meow Wolf. The website contains news from organizing efforts, training resources, and a listing of organizing success stories.

The Communications Workers of America Public, Healthcare and Education Workers (PHEW) sector represents social workers, educators, health care providers, computer programmers, heavy equipment operators, and corrections and police officers. The website contains local news from the sectors, conference information, and COVID-19 activism and resources.

Save the News is an action campaign from the Communications Workers of America to promote the Local Journalism Sustainability Act to save local journalism jobs. The website highlights the impact on the loss of local journalists and reporting on news deserts and journalism job cuts.

Accruals

New site crawls are accrued quarterly and semiannually.

In 2020, https://cwa-union.org/ was increased to biweekly. In 2021 it was shifted to monthly crawls.

Appraisal

Crawl was limited to domains and subdomains of cwa-union.org, cwa.org, speedmatters.org, tmobilesprintfacts.org, stopthetpp.org, fair5g.org, cwa-phew.org, buildbroadbandbetter.org, and cwapolitical.org in order to remain within the collection scope and data constraints. Crawl was also expanded to include files.cwa-union.org and unionhall.cwalocals.org.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Due to technical or privacy issues, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl. Certain file types will not be captured dependent on how they are embedded in the site. Other parts of websites that the crawler has difficulty capturing includes Javascript, streaming content, database-driven content, and highly interactive content. Full-Text searches of archived websites are available at https://archive-it.org/organizations/567.

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