In 1993 it absorbed the Telecommunications Officers Association (TOA). The CWU amalgamated with the ETU and PPTEU to form the CEPU in 1994, thereafter becoming a division of the larger union.
In 1993 the CWU took over the Telecommunications Officers Association (TOA). Two years later, it joined forces with the ETU and PPTEU to create the CEPU, which eventually became a component of the bigger union.