CWA, Incompas Launch Broadband Package Campaigns

The Communications Workers of America and Incompas launched lobbying on Thursday on a broadband title in coming infrastructure legislation (see 2107080066). CWA wants to bar companies receiving federal broadband money from interfering with union organizing and from hiring subcontractors for connectivity projects to avoid collective bargaining. Incompas and its BroadLand campaign released videos backing the Broadband Reform and Investment to Drive Growth in the Economy Act. S-2071, believed to form part of the basis for the $65 billion broadband component of a bipartisan infrastructure package President Joe Biden backed in June (see 2106290066), would allocate $40 billion for connectivity. The videos feature lead S-2071 sponsors Sens. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., and Angus King, I-Maine.