CWA Broadband Technicians Close Pay Gap With New Contract

Last week, CWA Local 7019 members of the Navajo Nation working for Frontier Communications in Arizona voted to ratify a four-year contract that closes a pay gap between Navajo telecommunications technicians and their counterparts elsewhere in the state. Members received help from labor ally Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego, who wrote a letter in September 2025 urging Frontier to bargain in good faith.

Click here to read a statement from Senator Gallego on the victory for equal pay.

Navajo CWA members, despite long travel distances, harsh weather, and limited resources, maintain essential broadband and phone infrastructure across remote communities on the largest Indigenous reservation in the United States. Their contract is retroactive to March 2025 and will expire in 2029.

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This post originally appeared on cwa-union.org.