. >> host: and chris shelton is president of the communications workers of america union, and he is our guest this week on "the communicators." mr. shelton, welcome to c-span. we appreciate your coming over. give us a snapshot of the cwa, if you would. >> guest: we have approximately 700,000 members not only in telecommunications as most people think, but in just about every walk of life, every job you could possibly think of. we have reporters, we have nurses, we have even some rocket scientists in new jersey. [laughter] we have printers, we have manufacturing folks. you name it, we have 'em. public workers. so so we're not the old cwa that people think about where it was just telephone employees. >> host: how is it that you can represent those other people under the umbrella of cwa? >> guest: well, we've merged a lot of other unions. for instance, the last one we merged was the flight attendants' union. and we've represented these folks, for instance, the printers came in to cwa in 1987, and we've been merging other unions since then. >> host: what are some of the telecommunications c

chris shelton as president of the communications workers of america union and he is our guest this week on the communicators. welcome to c-span. >> we have approximately 700,000 members in every walk of life, reporters, nurses, even some rocket scientists in new jersey. we have printers, manufacturing folks, you name it, we have them. we are not the old cwa. >> how is it you can represent? >> we have merged a lot of other unions. the last one was the flight attendants union. we have represented these folks. we have been merging other unions. >> what are some of the other telecommunications companies? >> at&t, frontier, verizon, t-mobile. come apeaking of verizon 45 day strike recently ended. what came out of that? what was the strike about? the strike was about one thing and one thing only, jobs and job security. for verizon, it was about a lot of things. we managed to come out of it with what we wanted and i think we did very well. verizon also did ok. thanks you should go out to kill an employer, you should keep an employer successful if you can. which is what we did up her eyes and.

my name is chris shelton. i'm the president of the communication workers of america. representing 700,000 working people in telecommunications, media, airlines, public service, and manufacturing. the goal for all working families remains a secure, sustainable job and a real improvement in our standard of living. here's how we get there. number one, we start with real bargaining rights. ceos today earn 300, 400, or even 1,000 times as front-line workers, most of whom haven't had a real wage increase for more than three decades. 1% is doing better than ever. but working families really haven't recovered from the great recession. one major reason for this is the continued attack on public and private sector workers who want to stand together and create a better workplace for themselves and for their coworkers. union members have a voice on the job. they have bargaining rights. however, fewer working people than ever have the chance to join a union because they face harassment by companies who use fear and intimidation to stop them. the national labor relations act declar

. >> host: and chris shelton is president of the communications workers of america union, and he is ourguest this week on "the communicators." mr. shelton, welcome to c-span. we appreciate your coming over. give us a snapshot of the cwa, if you would. >> guest: we have approximately 700,000 members not only in telecommunications as most people think, but in just about every walk of life, every job you could possibly think of. we have reporters, we have nurses, we have even some rocket scientists in new jersey. [laughter] we have printers, we have manufacturing folks.

you can view all of the winning documentaries at student cam.org chris shelton is president of the communicationseek on communicators. welcome to cspan. we appreciate you coming over. give us a snapshot of the cwa, if you would. >> we have approximately 700,000 members, not not only intelligent medications as most people think but in just about every walk of life, every job you can possibly think of we have reporters and nurses and even some rocket scientists in new jersey. we have printers, we have manufacturing folks, you name it, we have them. public workers workers so we are not the old cwa the people think about where it was just telephone employees. >> how is it that you can represent those other people under the umbrella of cwa? >> we have merged a lot of other unions, for instance the last one we merged was the flight attendants union. we've represented these folks, for instance the print servers coming to cwa in 1987 and we been merging other unions since then. >> what are some of the telecommunications companies for your workers are represented. >> at&t, verizon, frontier frontier, t-mo

chris jansing, impressive people. joining us from san francisco is star shelton whose former partner kim, k.j. was his nickname morris was killed in yesterday's shooting. star, my condolences to you. what was she like as a person? was her job like? being a bouncer is sort of a physical aspect. you got to get people out of a place that shouldn't be there and keep order. what do you know? we should know? >> absolutely. what i can tell you is that k.j. is a wonderful, wonderful person. anybody that knows her or anybody that had the chance to meet her has known that about her and has felt her love and her care that she gives to the entire world. i could say nothing bad about her. in terms of her job there in orlando, she did just begin that job at pulse about two weeks ago. and she did tell me that she was very excited to be there because it was going to introduce her into the lgbt community there in orlando and she felt happy and very comfortable in that environment and i know she said that, you know, the people and the staff there, they were really wonderful people as well and she really enjoyed

carrie underwood and chris stapleton lead with three nominations a piece. great performers. luke bryan, blake sheltonow up, a lot of numbers and collaborations. >> theaters june 10th for the "conjuring 2." >> patrick wilson is back. this is a scary movie. they play paranormal investigators and look into creepy stuff that happens. the first, there was creepy stuff on the set. for this one, the producers called in a priest to bless the set. i'm not going to pass judgment because i don't want the conjuring to come my way. >> no, you don't. june 12th, tony awards. i wonder if "hamilton" may pick one up. >> have you heard of the show? james corden is hosting. "hamilton," 16 nominations. we'll see if they beat "the producers." >> corden will be great, too. >> theater guy. >> let's jump to june 16th. new season of a show i love, "comedians in cars" with jerry seinfeld. >> he gets in a car with a comedian and they drink coffee. this season is going to be good. he has judd apatow, lauren michaels, john oliver. see if he can stop last season's interview with obama. >> it'e central intelligence. i don't think i