CWA stands for the Communications Workers of America, a growing union with about 650,000 members nationally. UPTE affiliated with CWA in 1993, and receives assistance from CWA with organizing, bargaining, and legislative issues. UPTE is part of CWA's District 9, which has over 60,000 members in California, Nevada and Hawaii.

Most people know CWA as a telecommunications union because it represents employees at SBC/Pacific Bell, AT&T and other big telecom companies. But CWA also represents many other workers, especially college and university employees, newspaper, radio and television journalists, and technical workers of all kinds. For more information,go to CWA's web site.