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Proceedings and Index of the 61St Annual Convention - 1999 Proceedings and Index of the 61st Annual Convention - 1999 Communications Workers of America Miami Beach Convention Center Miami Beach, Florida July 12 - 14, 1999 TABLE OF CONTENTS MONDAY MORNING July 12,1999 Call to Order - Temporary Chair Willie Knowles, President, Local 3122 Invocation - Rabbi Jory Lang Opening Ceremonies - Presentation of Colors, National Anthems Introduction of Host Committee Greetings by: Natasha Seijas-Millan, Miami-Dade County Commissioner Hon. Neisen Kasdin, Mayor of Miami Beach Marilyn Lenard, President, Florida AFL-CIO Remarks by District 3 Vice President James E. Smith President's Address - President Morton Bahr Use of Microphones6 Credentials Committee - Partial Report8 Convention Rules - Hours of Convention0 Finance Committee Report1-24 Defense/Members' Relief Fund Oversight Committee Resolutions Committee 61 A-99-3 - Journalist To Journalist 61A-99-2 - Promoting Quality Health Care Through Health Care Worker Organizing International Guests and Dignitaries Announcements Recess MONDAY AFTERNOON Call to Order Credentials Committee - Supplemental Report "Unionism" - Poem by Danielle Moore Report on Organizing/Organizing Awards by Executive Vice President Larry Cohen President's Annual Award Announcements Election Rules by Jeff Zaino, American Arbitration Association Nomination of National Officers Recess TUESDAY MORNING July 13,1999 Call to Order Invocation - Pastor Roberto Perez Election Results Installation of Officers by Installing Officer, Secretary-Treasurer Emeritus James Booe National Women's Committee Report Report of the National Committee on Equity Report of the Secretary-Treasurer - Barbara Easterling Address by John Sweeney, President, AFL-CIO Announcements Recess TUESDAY AFTERNOON Call to Order Address by William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States Constitution Committee Report In Memoriam Resolutions Committee (continued) 61A-99-1 - Al Gore for President Address by Philip Bowyer, General Secretary, Communications International Remarks by Yossi Harel and Fayez Jaber Glenn Wafts Center of Jerusalem Remarks by Jose Juan Hernandez, President, UIET, Puerto Rico Recess WEDNESDAY MORNING July 14,1999 Call to Order invocation - Rev. Father George Puthusseril Address by Moe Biller, President, American Postal Workers Union Pediatric AIDS Foundation Awards & Address by Kate Carr, CEO, Pediatric AIDS Foundation Appeals Committee Address by Joseph Andrew Chair, Democratic National Committee Resolutions Committee - continued 61A-99-4 - We Support Census 2000 61A-99-5 - Strengthening Social Security 61A-99-6 - Preserving and Enhancing Medicare 61A-99-7 - The National Labor College 61A-99-8 - Economic Policy Resolution 61A-99-9 - Democratic Communications 61 A-99-1 0 - Violence At Home and At Work - A Union Issue 30-Year Service Awards COPE Awards Newsletter Awards Resolution to Support the Cuban Food and Medicine Act of 1999 Resolution on Discriminatory Taxation of Domestic Partner Benefits Good and Welfare Closing Remarks by President Bahr Adjournment Communications & Greetings Appendix A - Finance Committee Report MONDAY MORNING SESSION July 12, 1999 The Opening Session of the 61st Convention of the Communications Workers of America, held at the Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach, Florida, July 12-14, 1999, convened at 9:00 a.m., Willie Knowles, President, CWA Local 3122, Temporary Chair, presiding. TEMPORARY CHAIR KNOWLES: Good morning. We have a busy morning and a full schedule. Please take your seats as soon as possible so we can begin. I am Willie Knowles, President of CWA Local 3122. I have the honor of serving as the Temporary Chair. We welcome you to Miami Beach to CWA District 3 and to the 61st Annual Convention of the Communications Workers of America. As is our custom, we will open the Convention with a prayer. I would like to call upon Rabbi Jory Lang of Temple Beth Moshe for the invocation. After the invocation, please remain standing for the presentation of Colors and the singing of the national anthems. Please give Rabbi Lang a warm welcome. (Applause) RABBI JORY LANG (Temple Beth Moshe, Miami Beach): We ask God to invoke his blessing on everyone who is here today. We live in a society where people basically don't count; people can work for 20 or 30 years and they are discarded. The CWA ensures that people have a connection. It started off by connecting people to each other, and it continues to have that relationship. The way in which it runs in a democratic fashion, allowing everyone to have a voice is imperative. This organization, this union, needs to grow. We ask that God give everyone strength and wisdom and integrity, that everyone should work together for the betterment of our country and, through this union, that people remain active and have a voice. God protect everyone here with good health, longevity, a good job, and, most important, the ability to work with each other and to assure that everyone works with honesty and integrity. We ask God's blessing today that this Convention be blessed with wisdom and good things, and we say, Amen. TEMPORARY CHAIR KNOWLES: Thank you, Rabbi Lang. Our colors this morning will be presented by the NJ-ROTC Unit, G. Holmes Braddock Senior High School in Miami. Felicia Townsend of Glendale Baptist Church will sing the National Anthem of the United States. TNG- CWA staff representative Debbie Thomas will sing the National Anthem of Canada. Felix Morales will sing the National Anthem of Puerto Rico. I want to remind the delegates to please remain standing until the Color Guard has left the hall. We will now have the presentation of Colors and the National Anthems of the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. The delegates rose and applauded at length after the singing of "The Star Spangled Banner," sung by Felicia Townsend of Glendale Baptist Church; "O Canada," sung by Debbie Thomas of TNG-CWA staff, and the National Anthem of Puerto Rico, sung by Felix Morales, after which the Colors were retired . TEMPORARY CHAIR KNOWLES: I want to thank the Color Guard and our singers for their wonderful renditions of the national anthems. Please give them another round of applause. (Prolonged applause) We come to conventions and take for granted that everything is in order, the way that it should be. But there is a great deal of work that goes on behind the scenes. An enormous amount of planning and hard work has gone into our efforts to make this week exciting and memorable. The District 3 Host Committee has been working overtime to ensure the success of this convention. I serve as Chair of the Host Committee. Please join me in thanking all of the members of the District 3 Host Committee. As I introduce them, they are going to stand. They are members of Local 3122: . As each member of the Host Committee was introduced, the delegates responded with a single clap of recognition . Mary Landry, Secretary-Treasurer; Laura Davis, Area Vice President; Bryna Ostrovsky; Patsy McDowell; Mary Anderson; Luis Tornes; Nance Ward; Karen Saunders; Susan Knowles; and Rhonda LaPorte, First Vice President, who is unable to be here. And a special thanks to Staff Representative Betty Witte for her support and help with this committee. Our next guest is Miami-Dade County Commissioner Natasha Seijas-Millan. Commissioner Seijas-Millan was elected in 1993 and her legislative record reflects her commitment to minorities, women and children. She was very instrumental in helping to get the living wage ordinance passed for Dade County. I, along with other labor leaders and community activists, had several meetings with her and she was very supportive of passing this ordinance. Please welcome Commissioner Millan. (Applause) NATASHA SEIJAS -MILLAN (Miami-Dade County Commissioner): Good morning. I have never spoken in this hall, so I hope I can do it slow enough that you can hear me. I know there is an echo back there. I want to tell you what a pleasure it is for me to welcome you here. It is on behalf of the Mayor and the Commissioners who sit with me on the County Commission that I wish you buenos dias. We are delighted that you have chosen our community as a site for this convention. On the end of the millennium, we are confident that the future looks bright for Miami-Dade, and with all the rapid changes in technology and communications, we are confident that the future looks bright for the Communications Workers of Miami. So keep your sunglasses on. There is a great millennium coming up. Besides the serious business of this conference, I trust some of you will enjoy some of our beaches. I would try a little bit of Cuban coffee, maybe take some stories back about "living la vida loca," and all in all just enjoy what we have to offer, and we offer kindness and caring for you. But Miami-Dade is not just another fun place for American workers to hold a conference. This community has developed a positive and fruitful relationship with organized labor. I have witnessed a growth of mutual trust and understanding, while serving in the Miami-Dade County Commission. There has been no doubt, the improved climate has been the result of the initiative by local and national labor officials in this community, and for that I thank you. Wherever there have been issues regarding the working poor in this community, we can count on organized labor to be there to lend a hand. Labor is involved in many things in Dade County. It is involved in the Welfare to Work program. It is involved in the pensions and the work forces of our community. Labor is involved in finding — if you listened to my introduction you noticed the most important thing — opportunities for women and minorities to have a decent job. For that I will always be grateful. (Applause) We, the elected officials, have taken note of the good work of the labor officials in our community.
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