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So so were not the old cwa that people think about where it was just telephone employees. Host how is it that you can represent those other people under the umbrella of cwa . Guest well, weve merged a lot of other unions. For instance, the last one we merged was the flight attendants union. And weve represented these folks, for instance, the printers came in to cwa in 1987, and weve been merging other unions since then. Host what are some of the Telecommunications Companies where your workers are represented . Guest at t, frontier, verizon, tmobile, you name it. Host well, speaking of verizon,...

Host David Shelton is president of the Communications Workers of America Union and he is our guest this week on the communicators. Mr. Shelton welcome to cspan. We appreciate your coming over. Give us a snapshot of the cwa if you would. Jaczko we have approximately 700,000 members not only in telecommunications as most people think but in just about every walk of life, every job you could possibly think of. We have reporters, we have nurses, we have even some rocket scientist. We have printers. We have manufacturing folks. You name it we have them. Public workers so we are not the old cwa do p...

Minute to explain. Everyone will probably remember that mitt romney promised in 2012 that the first thing hewas going to do on his first day of in office was to defund obamacare. But maybe you dont remember what he said, the second thing he was going to do. He was going to defund both the national endowment, that was the second thing was going to do on his first day in office. These endowments are in the sights of the republicans because they would like to get rid of them. Mister chairman, this is a good amendment but the one thing thats missing is a sentence calling for increase in the fundin...

All of our infrastructure is wireline based. So that has been a good thing in the context of throughput for broadband speeds because you are not paying for data bits based on usage. We just acquired three Additional Properties in florida and california and texas where we bought some of the fios assets from verizon and we have lightningfast speeds with lots of content and choice for consumers. Host how big is frontier . Guest we are the fourth largest teleco. I think a tshgt t and verizon a am not saying them in order then century link and then us. We are the eighth largest provider of video co...

Because you dont, youre not paying for data bits based on usage. And we just acquired three Additional Properties in florida and california and texas where we bought some of the fios assets from verizon, and weve got lightning fast speeds with lot of content, lots of choice for consumers. Host how big is frontier . Guest we are the fourth largest telco, so think at and t, verizon, and im not saying these in order, i dont know whats first, at t or verizon, then century link, then us. Host well, we invited you this week on the communicators to talk about the rollout of 5g. The fcc is meeting nex...