CWA 1180 - News

Members support Katrina victims
May 2006

The Local 1180 executive board voted unanimously to devote all proceeds from the union’s 40th anniversary journal, $10,685, to support union families displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Local 1180 members and retirees reached
into their own pockets to help support the victims as well, with members donating $880 and retirees giving an impressive $5,388. All in all, the union
contributed $16,953 to the CWA Disaster Relief Fund, which goes to support our union sisters and brothers and their families who lost their jobs or homes in the storm. “We hope our CWA members who suffered in this disaster are starting to pull their lives together,” said Local 1180 secretary/treasurer Gloria Middleton, “and we wish them to know they have not been forgotten.”

CWA president Larry Cohen toured New Orleans on February 9 and saw fewer results from federal recovery efforts. “Miles and miles of whole neighborhoods not only remain devastated but they show no sign of rehabilitation whatsoever,” Cohen said, adding that presidents of CWA locals in the area expressed heartfelt thanks for help from the CWA Disaster Relief Fund and from union members around the country in the wake of the Katrina disaster. strikers.

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