Claude Cummings is a 1969 Kashmere High graduate. He was class president, ROTC member, Glee Club, Library Club, Jets Club and Excalibur’s Club. Claude was voted Most Ambitious Male by his senior class. He is currently president of CWA’s 6,000-member Local 6222 in Houston since 1999, is one of 23 board members setting policy and directing programs for the union. CWA represents 700,000 members in telecommunications, media, the public sector, healthcare, education, manufacturing and airlines across the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Long active in the Houston area, Cummings is a member of the NAACP, Urban League, Harris County chapter of the Texas Coalition of Black Democrats, Trustee of the Oaks of Inwood Civic Association, a United Way board member representing labor and past vice president of the local chapters of the A. Phillip Randolph Institute and Coalition of Black Trade Unionists. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in2000 and 2004. He is also chairman of the Faith Revitalization Center, chair of the Deacon Board and a choir member at Fifth Ward Missionary Baptist Church and sings throughout the country as a member of the gospel group, “Endurance.” He is married to Ruth Cummings and they’re parents of three and grandparents of five. He is a past Little League coach, among many other volunteer activities and has been just as active as a labor leader. Before becoming president of Local 6222, he was elected vice president in 1987 and is national assistant treasurer of the union’s Minority Caucus. He has chaired, co-chaired or coordinated programs ranging from union blood drives to the CWA Community Services, Equity and Organizing committees. Cummings studied electrical engineering at Tuskegee Institute. He went to work for Southwestern Bell 1973 as a frame attendant and communications technician. His assignments included maintaining the Oilers and Astros program board and microwave backup system for NASA. We the KFAA members are so proud of Claude’s accomplishments and his gratitude to our association.
