From: nigel.allen@canrem.com (Nigel Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Communications Workers of America Convention
Date: 4 Apr 92 00:00:00 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 297, Message 3 of 13

Here is a press release from the Communications Workers of America:

CWA Leaders to Converge on Miami Beach for Annual International
Convention

 Contact: Jeff Miller or Gaye Williams Mack of the Communications
          Workers of America, 202-434-1172

News Advisory:

   The Communications Workers of America (CWA) will hold its 54th
annual convention Monday, April 6, through Wednesday, April 8, in
Miami Beach, Fla., at the Miami Beach Convention Center, beginning at
9 AM, Monday, April 6.

   More than 3,000 delegates and alternates from all regions of the
United States and Canada will attend the convention -- the union's
highest policy-making body.

   Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton is expected to address the convention,
(see note) as well as other prominent officials and labor leaders.

   The convention will also focus on the election of CWA's national
officers.  And among other concerns of the delegates is the 1992 round
of bargaining which began with AT&T in March and involves more than
400,000 CWA members throughout the telecommunications industry and in
the public sector.

   "The challenges we face this year present many opportunities for
change," commented CWA President Morton Bahr.  "Our bargaining goals
of economic security for our families, justice in the workplace, and
preservation of union jobs, set an agenda to demand that successful
corporations set an example in providing -- not destroying -- good
American jobs.

   "And we have the opportunity to help change the direction of our
government, by mobilizing CWA members and their families, along with
other working people, to put a progressive president in the White
House this year," Bahr concluded.

   The CWA news room will open for media registration on Monday, April
6, at 8:30 AM, at the Miami Beach Convention Center.  For more
information, call CWA starting on Friday, April 3, in Miami, at
305-532-7842 or 305-534-0945.

   CWA represents more than 600,000 workers in telecommunications,
printing, publishing, media, health care, and the public sector in the
United States and Canada.

                  Convention Speakers Schedule

 MONDAY, APRIL 6: Convention Convenes - 9 AM
   Seymour Gelber, mayor, city of Miami Beach
   Marty Urra, president, South Florida AFL-CIO
   Morton Bahr, president, CWA

   CWA/Teamsters Jobs With Justice Rally - 5:30 to 7 PM
   Convention Center, Hall C
   Speakers: Sen. Tom Harkin; Ron Carey, Teamsters president;
               Morton Bahr

 TUESDAY, APRIL 7: Convention Convenes - 12:30 PM
   Lenore Miller, president, Retail, Wholesale and Department
     Store Union;
   Philip Bowyer, general secretary, Postal, Telegraph and
     Telephone International

 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8: Convention Convenes - 9 AM
   George J. Kourpias, president, International Association of
     Machinists and Aerospace Workers;
   Richard Womack, director, AFL-CIO Department of Civil Rights;
   Sol Stetin, president, American Labor Museum, Botto House
     National Landmark
 
  NOTE: The time of Gov. Clinton's appearance is to be scheduled.


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