Annie Hill
Executive Vice President
Annie Hill was elected executive vice president of the Communications Workers of America by acclamation on June 24, 2008, by delegates to the union’s 70th Convention.
With the CWA president and secretary-treasurer, Hill works to advance the membership’s top priorities and initiatives; the three officers comprise CWA’s executive committee.
Hill has been a leader in CWA since her earliest days as a union member. Most recently, she has served for three years as CWA vice president for District 7, representing workers in 14 states. She was elected to that post in 2005.
As vice president, Hill bargained critical contracts for members at Qwest Communications, among other employers, and put in place new structures in the district to better represent members across that region.
She heads CWA’s executive board committee on health care and is responsible for creating and overseeing CWA’s program to help educate members and focus the national debate on real health care reform, one of CWA’s four key issues. She directs CWA’s work on customer service issues, including partnerships with international worker organizations and unions to unite customer service workers globally.
Hill also was a member of the executive board committee on diversity which was created to help give persons of color, women and local union leaders a greater voice on the executive board. That measure was adopted by convention delegates in 2007.
She now heads the union’s Telecom Office, and, working with CWA officers and vice presidents who represent telecom members, develops policy and strategies to address a changing industry.
Jointly with the Secretary-Treasurer, Hill oversees CWA’s political and legislative programs and is working to expand and advance the union’s most critical initiatives that include the union’s role in the national and presidential elections; passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, legislation that would give workers a free choice for union representation; jobs/fair trade; retirement security; health care reform; and achieving social and economic justice for workers.
She joined CWA in Dec. 1976 as an outside technician for Pacific Northwest Bell and was elected to two terms as president of Local 7904 in Salem, Oregon. She joined the district staff in Minneapolis in 1990. She went on to serve as an administrative assistant to the vice president in 1994 and then assistant to the vice president in 1999.
