Future IUE-CWA Leaders Lobby Lawmakers in Washington, D.C.

This week, the 2025 IUE-CWA Next Generation Mentorship Program is in Washington, D.C., educating legislators on the Empowering Striking Workers Act and encouraging them to support legislation against price gouging.

Participants in the mentorship program learn skills to help strengthen their locals and build the labor movement. While on Capitol Hill, members bolster their relationships with their union siblings, learn about pending legislation most likely to impact working people, and how best to influence their elected officials. This year, CWA Director of Government Affairs Dan Mauer, CWA Deputy Government Affairs Director Elena Lopez, and Senior Campaign Lead Tysianna Marino led a lobby training as well as a training on authoritarianism and oligarchy.

The 14 mentees are IUE-CWA members from Ohio, Indiana, Alabama, Texas, New York, Kentucky, Missouri, Virginia, and New Jersey. They will continue with monthly assignments and Zoom meetings over the next few months. Graduation will be held at the IUE-CWA headquarters in Dayton, Ohio, in April 2026.

 
Participants in the IUE-CWA Mentorship Program visited Washington, D.C., this week, where they pushed legislators to support pro-worker legislation and learned about authoritarianism and oligarchy.

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This post originally appeared on cwa-union.org.