For Pride Month this year, the AFL-CIO is spotlighting various LGBTQ+ union members who have worked and continue to work at the intersection of civil and labor rights in the United States. Today's profile is Erdem Odner of the Communications Workers of America (CWA).
Erdem Odner is a member of CWA Local 9509 in San Diego. Odner has been a retail sales consultant at AT&T for eight years. Odner is a proud member of the San Diego chapter of Pride at Work and has been instrumental in the revitalization of the CWA Pride Caucus this past year, while increasing membership and organizing and originating petitions to Congress on trans rghts and liberation.