Eduardo Diaz

CWA’s efforts to support workers and unions globally fighting for respect and dignity go back to the earliest days of our union. As CWA’s first president, Joe Beirne, stated in 1965, “Free unions in a free world is a goal as basic to CWA as the winning of better wages and working conditions for our members in the communications industry in this country.”

CWA’s international solidarity work extends far beyond affiliating with global union federations. Our union has a long history of direct support for unions in other countries working to organize workers in our industries.

Starting in 1959, CWA launched Operation South America, which provided direct financial and staffing support for labor leaders and activists struggling to form unions in the communications sector throughout South America, Central America and the Caribbean;

In 1998, CWA convention delegates created the Union-to-Union International Solidarity Fund, supported by voluntary contributions of 10 cents a member from CWA locals, with funds going to directly support organizing efforts by workers around the globe.

Today the fund is known as the Eduardo Diaz Union-to-Union International Solidarity fund, in honor of former CWA International Director Eduardo Diaz.

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How projects are chosen and funds distributed.

The International Committee of the CWA Executive Board oversees the Eduardo Diaz Union to Union International Solidarity Fund. The Committee makes recommendations to the CWA President on organizing projects to support and funding levels. They also receive reports from the funded organizations.