CWAers to Build Broadband ?Anchor Network? in California
CWA Local 9400 will gain new jobs and new members thanks to a broadband grant awarded to a union company in California. Funded by the Obama administration's economic recovery program, the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program supports projects that build out high speed networks.
Local 9400 had organized workers at the California Broadband Cooperative; now another 1,000 new jobs are likely to come on line as a result of the broadband grant.
The company's "Digital 395 Middle Mile Project" will build a 10 gigabit fiber network that will provide a high speed link to 230 community anchor institutions in 36 communities, six Native American reservations and two military bases in eastern California.
Local 9400 and CWA District 9, partnering with the company, helped build support for the proposal by working with community groups, elected officials and others to get the project done.
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