Accountability August: Actions Across America

Last month, CWA members and retirees across the country took to the streets in opposition to President Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill," which eliminates healthcare protections for millions of Americans while providing tax breaks for the obscenely wealthy. Members joined labor and community partners to hold elected officials accountable and send a clear message: the American people will remember who voted against their interests.

Pictured top, left to right: Members called out elected officials, including Representatives Monica De La Cruz in Texas, Maria Elvira Salazar in Florida, Cory Mills in Florida, Mike Turner in Ohio, Derrick Van Orden in Wisconsin, John James in Michigan, and David Valadao in California.

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In Arizona (left), CWA partnered with the AFL-CIO's Better in a Union Bus Tour to call out anti-union Representatives David Schweikert, Abraham Hamadeh, and Juan Ciscomani. We partnered with the tour again in New York, holding N.Y. Reps. like Mike Lawler to account.

In New York State, CWA partnered with the Fiscal Policy Institute and several other major unions and community organizations to hold virtual briefings for members on the major impacts of the bill on working people across the country.

On August 22, members of CWA Locals 1103 and 1118 took part in the Progress for the People Town Hall, an in-person briefing in Glens Falls, N.Y., on the impact of the bill, alongside Reps. Paul Tonko, Ayanna Pressley, and Becca Balint​.

"My member of Congress [Rep. Mike Lawler] voted for the One Big Ugly Cruel Bill," said CWA Local 1103 Secretary-Treasurer Joe Mayhew, speaking at the event. "And that is a problem for the members of CWA, especially the ones in the healthcare profession. The One Big Ugly Cruel Bill cuts hundreds of billions of dollars out of Medicaid and that will affect all of our local hospitals."

Click here to read more about the impact of Medicaid cuts to rural hospitals from the National Rural Health Association.