Communications Workers of America

Affiliated SuperPACs: Communications Workers Of America Working Voices

Communications Workers of America (CWA) is the largest communications and media labor union in the United States representing about 550,000 members in both the private and public sectors. The union has 27 locals in Canada via CWA-SCA Canada (Syndicat des communications d’Amérique) representing about 8,000 members. CWA has several affiliated subsidiary labor unions bringing total membership to over 700,000. CWA is headquartered in Washington, DC, and affiliated with the AFL-CIO, the Canadian Labour Congress, and Union Network International. The current president is Larry Cohen, a member of the AFL-CIO Executive Council.

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Campaign Finance

Information

Figures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:

  • contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
  • only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
  • contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
  • corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
  • organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.

For more information, please see our campaign finance methodology page. Lobbyist bundling data is described on our lobbyist bundling methodology page.

Latest FEC Data

covers through committee's December 31, 2012 filing. independent expenditures updated daily.
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Standardized Donation Information

covers roughly through Q4 2012. may lag behind FEC section above, as donors and industries are identified by hand.

  • Top Recipients

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    Includes contributions from the organization’s employees, their family members, and its political action committee.

  • Republicans vs. Democrats

    in dollars. "Other" includes 3rd parties and organizations without official party affiliation.

  • State vs. Federal

    in dollars

  • Top PAC Recipients

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    Includes contributions from the organization’s employees, their family members, and its political action committee.
View all campaign finance data for Communications Workers of America Sources: OpenSecrets.org FollowTheMoney.org

Lobbying

$1,425,000 Spent
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Figures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.

For more information, please see our lobbying methodology page.

covers roughly through Q3, 2012

Lobbying on Behalf of Communications Workers of America

  • Names of Lobbyists
  • Firm Hired Amount
    Communications Workers of America $1,075,000
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
    • Labor, Antitrust & Workplace,
    • Taxes,
    • Telecommunications,
    • Trade,
    • Aviation, Airlines & Airports,
    • Manufacturing,
    • Homeland Security,
    • Civil Rights & Civil Liberties,
    • Copyright, Patent & Trademark,
    • Immigration
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
    Bill No. Title
    H.R.658 FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011
    H.R.1876 Healthy Families Act
    H.R.2587 Protecting Jobs From Government Interference Act
    H.R.2604 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the treatment of securities of a controlled corporation exchanged for assets in certain reorganizations.
    H.R.1249 America Invents Act
    H.R.3596 United States Call Center Worker and Consumer Protection Act
    H.J.RES.37 Disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to regulating the Internet and broadband industry practices.
    S.23 Patent Reform Act of 2011
    S.1258 Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2011
    S.J.RES.6 A joint resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to regulating the Internet and broadband industry practices.
View all lobbying data for Communications Workers of America Sources: Lobbyist Registration Tracker OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

Mentioned in 44 dockets; Submitted to 10 dockets
Information

All data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.

Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.

Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.

Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.

updated daily from Regulations.gov by way of Docket Wrench

The tables show occurrences of "Communications Workers of America" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.