CWA Local 1180 Honored for Communications Excellence

Last week, the International Labor Communications Association (ILCA) announced the winners of the ILCA Labor Media Contest, the largest competition exclusively for labor journalists and communicators. CWA Local 1180 took home the prestigious Saul Miller Award for their coverage of the ultimately successful two-and-a-half-year bargaining struggle between CWA Local 1180-Bird Union members and National Audubon Society management. The Saul Miller Award recognizes excellence in writing on organizing, collective bargaining, political action, and social justice advocacy. This year’s competition brought in approximately 750 entries from across the United States and Canada.

Click here to read CWA Local 1180’s winning entry.

CWA Local 1180 Communications Director Marci (Rosenblum) Toback wrote the piece, in collaboration with CWA District 1 Staff Representative Luis Benitez-Burgos, who provided legal guidance, and CWA District 1 Private Sector Staff Representative Christopher Thomas, who contributed substantially to the story and is featured prominently in its accompanying photo. The story also would not have been possible without the contributions of organizers and members who made the contract win possible.

Under Toback’s leadership, CWA Local 1180 has taken home several ILCA awards, including the Max Steinbock Award—ILCA’s highest award for journalistic excellence.

Congratulations to CWA Local 1180 and Communications Director Toback!

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This post originally appeared on cwa-union.org.