CWA Statement on Louisiana v. Callais

The following statement is from CWA President Claude Cummings Jr.:

Sixty-one years ago, working people in the South first tasted the promise of a truly representative democracy for all peoples when we achieved the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This week, the Supreme Court has set the righteous cause of democracy back with the gutting of the VRA's enforcement powers and a perversion of the very notion of representative democracy by giving politicians the power to choose their voters based on party affiliation.

For working people-and Black and minority workers in particular-our voice in our democracy is inseparable from our ability to fight for fair wages, safe workplaces, and dignity on the job. Our union has always understood that economic rights and civil rights are two sides of the same coin. The Court's decision to weaken the voting power of Black communities is an attack on working people everywhere.

We are a fighting union, and we will not sit back and watch politicians and their billionaire backers gerrymander working people out of their voting rights. We will make our voices heard at the ballot box and demand the restoration of our voting rights.

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