National Staff
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Claude Cummings Jr - President CWA

Christopher Shelton was elected president of the Communications Workers of America by acclamation by delegates to the union’s 75th convention on June 8, 2015. (*)
Since 2005, he has been vice president of CWA District 1, representing 160,000 members in more than 300 CWA locals in New Jersey, New York and New England. (*)
Prior to his election as vice president, Shelton was assistant to the District 1 vice president, responsible for contract negotiations and the thousands of collective bargaining agreements covering District One members. (*)
He served as the Verizon Regional Bargaining Chair in 2000 and 2003, and overall Chair of Verizon bargaining for CWA District 1, District 2-13, IBEW New Jersey and New England in 2008 and 2011. He also chaired negotiations in New Jersey for 40,000 State Workers in 2008 and 2011.(*)
Shelton started his union career when he went to work for New York Telephone in 1968 as an outside technician. He was elected a CWA Local 1101 shop steward in 1968 and served Local 1101 in various positions until December 1988 when he joined the CWA national staff.(*)
He is a native of the Bronx, N.Y.
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Ameenah Salaam - Secretary-Treasurer CWA

Sara Steffens was elected secretary-treasurer of the Communications Workers of America by delegates to the union’s 75th convention on June 8, 2015. (*)
Most recently, she has been serving as secretary-treasurer of the NewsGuild-CWA, the CWA affiliate representing journalists and other news workers. As secretary-treasurer, she has been responsible for managing the Guild’s operating budget, its investments and other funds. She assists locals with fiscal and legal compliance and also serves on the NewsGuild’s collective bargaining and legal services committees.(*)
A native of Minnesota, she has a journalism degree from Evergreen State College in Seattle, and beginning in 1999 worked as a reporter for nine years at the Contra Costa (California) Times. There, she successfully led her co-workers at the Times and other newspapers in the Bay Area to organize and join the Northern California Media Workers Guild, now called the Pacific Media Workers Guild.(*)
She and 28 co-workers were fired by the Bay Area Newspaper Group in 2008 for their union activism but she continued to work with the NewsGuild and CWA, ultimately bargaining a first contract for workers at the newspaper group.
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Lisa Bolton - Vice President CWA Telecommunications and Technologies
The Telecommunications and Technologies sector represents members at ADT, AT&T (Legacy T), Avaya, CenturyLink, Frontier, Nokia, OFS (Atlanta & Sturbridge), and Windstream.
Vice President CWA Telecommunications and Technologies
District Staff
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Richard Honeycutt - Vice President CWA Dist 3
Bridgette Collins, Secretary to Vice-President Honeycutt
Bills, Invoices, Accounting, Etc. for North and South Carolina
Vice President CWA Dist 3
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Nick Hawkins - Asst. to the Vice President
Phyllis Jackson Secretary to Nick Hawkins
COPE
Organizing
Legislative-Political
DOC
Part Time Vouchers
Membership Dues Back Up
Grievances - BST & Mobility - North Carolina State Office and South Carolina State Office - Supporting Gene Redd Grievances
Asst. to the Vice President
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Paul Bouchard - CWA Staff Representative - All of 3176
CWA Staff Representative - All of 3176
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Adonis Breveard - District Secretary
Local Executive Officers
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Shelly Castro - President
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Philip Laird - Executive Vice President
Direct Reports
Tabitha Pilgrim - AT&T Unit Representative
Terry Redmond - CenturyLink Unit Representative
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Robert Fugate - Secretary / Treasurer
Local Executive Board Members
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Terry Redmond - Lumen Unit Vice President
Lumen Unit Vice President
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Tabitha Pilgrim - AT&T Unit Vice President
Chief Steward: Pedro Huertas
Lumen Chief Steward / Stewards
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Stewards |
Bobby Knapp - Orange County |
Terry Tabor - Seminole / Orange County |
Ron Washington -Seminole / Orange County |
Kevin Brown - Marion / Citrus / Levy County |
James Hancock - Lake/Sumter County |
We need a total of 12 stewards for all of Lumen. If you wish to volunteer, click the link.
STEWARD APPLICATION
AT&T Chief Steward / Steward
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Pedro Huertas - Chief Steward
Jeremiah Burnley - 352-233-3031- jeremiahburnley@cwa3176.org |
Karen Diorio – 352-215-6802 - KarenDiorio@cwa3176.org
Mariliz Lopez - 352-203-0911 - mariluzlopez@cwa3276.org
Stephanie Crawford - 352-355-6570 - stephaniecrawford@cwa3176.org
Whitney Golden - 352-693-0495 - whitneygolden@cwa3176.org
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Local Past Presidents / President Emeritus
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Bob Campbell - President 2000 - 2014
Bob Campbell - Years as President 2000 - 2014
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Mike Maldonado - President 2014 - 2017
Mike Maldonado - Years as president 2014 - 2017
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Greg Douglas - President 2017 - 2020
Years as President 2017 - 2020
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Wesley Kirby - President 2020 - 2023
President 2020 - 2023
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