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Mildred Montgomery President

PHOTOS FROM THE 2002 CWA DISTRICT 6 CONVENTION

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Carlos Nolla

 Kathleen Sebelius and Deb Larouche

Easterling with Knipp and Lovato

Larry Cohen

Barbara Easterling

Delegates

Mildred and Barbara

Larry Cohen speech

Larry and Mildred

"Doc" Fisher

Photographs courtesy Jackie Shirley and Stuart Elliott

Barbara Easterling

CWA SECTRETARY TREASURER

 

Our mission has never been more important than it is today. 
Since I met with you last year in Oklahoma City, we have seen troubling signs emerge . . . troubling signs in the form of public policies and pronouncements that have been decidedly anti-worker and anti-union.
We have seen unprecedented acts of corporate greed.
We have seen flagrant attempts to use the war on terrorism as an opportunity – and an excuse – to implement an extremist agenda that divides rich from poor . . . that favors management over labor . . . and that sides with giant corporations over the needs of working families.
I think it’s time we remind President Bush and the leaders of Congress that the freedoms we are defending just happen to include the right to organize . . . the right to be empowered through union membership . . . the right to bargain collectively . . . the right to have a voice in the workplace . . . and the right to strike when necessary!
We must sound this call louder than ever. We will stand up and fight for the rights of workers every place they are under attack . . . . because it’s the right thing to do! And at the end of the day, with your help, we will prevail!

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Larry Cohen

CWA EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

 

  Larry Cohen, Executive Vice President of the Communication Workers of America, told delegates to the 2002 District 6 convention that “the case for the union has never been stronger.”  Organizing, politics, and mobilizing must be linked according to Cohen as the union faces the challenge of working through the pain of large-scale layoffs announced by SBC during the conve ntion.

   Cohen discussed the bargaining to organize successes of CWA and the challenge of promoting high road jobs. 

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11,000 SBC employees to lose jobs

 

1,700 nonmanagement jobs will be cut in the five-state Southwestern Bell region that includes Kansas.

SW Bell plans to cut 71 jobs in Wichita