# UPTE-CWA Tech Worker Win and OFT's Voucher Fight and First Contract Success

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Podcast: [America’s Work Force Union Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/america-s-work-force-union-podcast-367664)
Published: 2026-06-17T20:55:50+00:00
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Duration seconds: 2414

## Resource

UPTE-CWA President Dan Russell discusses organizing 2,100 UC tech workers into the largest tech bargaining unit in the country and why getting organized before a mass AI rollout is the union’s most pressing next step. Ohio Federation of Teachers President Melissa Cropper covers AFT’s Devices Down, Eyes Up school technology vision, Ohio’s billion-dollar voucher accountability fight and five first contract victories — including the first KIPP charter school contract in the country — with a confident update on the Columbus Metropolitan Library election now underway.

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