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Proceedings and Index of the 60Th Annual Convention - 1998 Proceedings and Index of the 60th Annual Convention - 1998 Communications Workers of America Navy Pier Chicago, Illinois August 31 - September 1, 1998 SPEAKERS INDEX GUESTS: AL GORE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES REV. JESSE JACKSON, PRESIDENT, RAINBOW COALITION DON JOHNSON, PRESIDENT, ILLINOIS AFL-CIO JANIS SPIRE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, PEDIATRIC AIDS FOUNDATION DON A. TURNER, PRESIDENT, CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR DELEGATES: ANDREWS, Walter (Local 3204)73 BAHR, MORTON (President's Address) BOLDEN, Linder (Local 9426) BRAZELL, Shirley (Local 3706) BURDETTE, Hollis (Local 3115) CAPARELLA, Catherine (Local 38010) CAWDREY, Ron (Local 1096) CLARK, Fritz (Local 1111) CLARK, John S. (Vice President - NABET-CWA) COHEN, Larry (Executive Vice President) COLLIER, Charlie (Local 2222) COLLINS, Ronald (Local 2101) CUMMINGS, Claude, Jr. (Local 6222) DANN, Rich (Local 1085) DUDLEY, James (Local 9588) DUNBAR, Dennis (Local 7171) EASTERLING, Barbara (Secretary-Treasurer) EGAN, John (Local 4034) FAHRENHOLT, Michael J. (Local 3410) FLAVIN, Robert J. (Local 1170) FLOYD, Carla (Local 7901) FROSCH, Bruce (Local 51019) FUENTES, Kathleen (Local 7050) GOLDBLATT, Alan (Local 1180) HAYES, JERRY (Chair, Credentials Committee) HENNING, William, Jr. (Local 1180) HOUGH, Gary (Local 6325) HUNTE, Al (Local 6215) IRVINE, James (Vice President - Communications & Technologies) JOYCE, James (Local 51016) KALMIJN, Jeljer (Local 9119) KIDD, John (Local 4473, Chair, Appeals Committee) KINCHIUS, Kathleen (Local 9415) KNOWLES, William (Local 3122) KOPYCINSKI, Gene (Local 1122, Chair, Finance Committee) LAURENT, Terry (Local 3411) LEVASSEUR, Betty (Local 1365) LILJA, Robert (Local 1104, Chair, Defense Fund Oversight Committee) LORETTO, Donald (Local 1122) MASSA, Reynaldo (Local 1023, Chair, National Committee on Equity) McDONALD, Bea (Local 4320) MITCHELL, Wayne (Local 14170) MORROW, Robert (Local 1108) MULHOLLAND, James (Local 1034) MYERS, Ray (Local 13000) NICHOLS, M.E. (Executive Vice President) PETERSEN, Robert (Local 14200) RECHENBACH, JEFF (Vice President - District 4) RIFFE, Raymond (Local 3607) ROBERTS, Crystal J. (Local 4302) ROCHA, Louie (Local 9423) ROSENSTEIN, Hetty (Local 1037) RUCKER, Kenneth A. (Local 2222) SERRETTE, Dennis (Local 2108) SMITH, M.M. (Local 3204) SMITH, James (Vice President - District 3) SONNIK, William G. (Local 2105) SOTO, Nestor (Local 33225) STANLEY, Glenn (Local 6314) SUMMERLYN, Carol L. (Local 2202) TISZA, Steve (Local 4250/5050, Temporary Chair) TORRES, Eliseo (Local 6110, Chair, Resolutions & Rules Committee) TRACY, William J. (Local 3120) TURN, Ben (Vice President - District 6) TURNBO, Glenda (Local 6174) UNGER, Laura (Local 1150) WALLS, George (Local 4603) WHITE, Diane (Local 2201) WICKER, Judith (Local 4009) WILLIAMS, J.D. (Local 6215) YOUNG, Kim (Local 1112) SUBJECT INDEX Announcements Appeals Committee Closing Remarks by President Bahr Communications Constitution Committee Convention Rules - Hours of Convention COPE Awards Credentials Committee Defense Fund Oversight Committee Report Election Rules Election Results Executive Vice President M.E. Nichols Finance Committee Report Good and Welfare Host Committee In Memoriam Installation of Officers National Committee on Equity National Women's Committee Report Newsletter Awards Nomination of Officers Organizing Awards Pediatric AIDS Foundation President's Address - Int'l President Morton Bahr President's Annual Award Resolutions Committee 60A-98-1 - With Great Appreciation for M.E. Nichols 60A-98-2 - In Support of Telephone Workers in Puerto Rico 60A-98-3 - Union-To-Union: International Solidarity 60A-98-4 - Pension Fund Assets 60A-98-5 - Support of NABET-CWA Workers at Disney 60A-98-6 - Resolution in Support of the Han Young Strike 60A-98-7 - Economic Policy Resolution 60A-98-8 - Affiliations and Mergers 60A-98-9 - In Support of Appalachian March Secretary -Treasurer's Report - Barbara Easterling Use of Microphones TABLE OF CONTENTS MONDAY MORNING August 31, 1998 Call to Order - Temporary Chair Steve Tisza Invocation - Monsignor John Egan Opening Ceremonies Presentation of Colors, National Anthems Introduction of Host Committee Welcome Remarks by Don A. Turner, President, Chicago Federation of Labor Greetings by Don Johnson, President, Illinois AFL-CIO Remarks by District 4 Vice President Jeff Rechenbach President's Address - International President Morton Bahr Recognition of Retired Members Credentials Committee - Partial Report Use of Microphones Convention Rules - Hours of Convention Communications Finance Committee Report Resolutions Committee 60A-98-4 - Pension Fund Assets 60A-98-5 - Support of NABET-CWA Workers at Disney/ABC Announcements Recess MONDAY AFTERNOON Call to Order Communications Organizing Awards President's Annual Award Remarks by Winner Ron Collins, Local 2101 Report of Executive Vice President M.E. Nichols National Women's Committee Report Resolutions Committee - continued 60A-98-6 - Resolution in Support of the Han Young Strike 60A-98-7 - Economic Policy Resolution Address by Vice President of the United States, Al Gore Election Rules by Jeff Zaino, American Arbitration Association Nomination of Officers Recess TUESDAY MORNING September 1, 1998 Call to Order Invocation - Rabbi Robert J. Marks Installation of Officers Remarks by Vice President John Clark Remarks by Executive Vice President Larry Cohen Report of the National Committee on Equity Report of the Secretary-Treasurer - Barbara Easterling Resolutions Committee (continued) 60A-98-1 - With Great Appreciation for M.E. Nichols 60A-98-2 - In Support of Telephone Workers in Puerto Rico 60A-98-3 - Union-To -Union: International Solidarity 60A-98-8 - Affiliations and Mergers Announcements In Memoriam Recess TUESDAY AFTERNOON Call to Order Address by Rev. Jesse Jackson, President, Rainbow Coalition Resolutions Committee - continued 60A-98-9 - In Support of Appalachian March Defense Fund Oversight Committee Report Constitution Committee Pediatric AIDS Foundation Remarks by Janis Spire, Executive Director, Pediatric AIDS Foundation Appeals Committee COPE Awards Newsletter Awards Good and Welfare Closing Remarks by President Bahr Adjournment Communications Appendix A - Finance Committee Report & Supplement MONDAY MORNING SESSION August 31, 1998 The Opening Session of the Sixtieth Annual Convention of the Communications Workers of America, held in Festival Hall A, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois, convened at 9:00 a.m., Steve Tisza, President, CWA Local 4250, Temporary Chair, presiding. TEMPORARY CHAIR STEVE TISZA (Local 4250): Will all of the delegates please take their seats? We have a very full agenda this morning and we would like to get started. So, I ask all of you to please take your seats. The 60th Annual Convention of the Communications Workers of America now comes to order. Good morning. My name is Steve Tisza. I am president of Local 4250/5050 in Chicago. I have the honor of serving as your temporary chair for this morning’s session. I am told this is the first CWA convention in Chicago since 1949. We are very proud to have you in our city and hope that CWA will not wait so long before returning to Chicago. As is our custom, we will begin our convention with a prayer. I would like to call upon Monsignor John Egan, Assistant to the President, Office of Community Affairs, DePaul University. Monsignor Egan has long been known for his support of workers and civil rights and we are pleased to have him lead us in the invocation. Will the delegates please rise? MONSIGNOR EGAN (Office of Community Affairs, DePaul University): If I may be given a moment before I begin to pray, I want to commend this union and other unions across the country for still having the custom of having clergymen speak and ask God's blessing on your work. I have found that employers no longer do that. And that is sad. Let us pray. Father of all people, human history has been a story of the constant unfolding of Your love for us. We come to You as working people, joined in solidarity. We believe that it is through our union that we are made strong, that we can better work for justice for all workers and for peace in our troubled world. We are grateful for the example of those, both living and dead, who have labored in our union. Our nation as a whole has been the beneficiary of dedicated service and the cause of freedom has been enhanced by the struggle to achieve the basic human rights. The workers here assembled are moving thoughtfully and with great skill to assure all Americans that their work will be of great benefit to the communication among all the peoples of the earth. These men and women have been in the forefront of our technology in developing fine communications, to enable commerce and government, as well as the ordinary citizens to live a life of better and finer contact with their friends and neighbors all over the world. We ask Your blessing on all here today for their efforts to secure that most fundamental of all human rights, the right to organize and to bargain collectively with employers for justice and the economic order and to freely petition the government for those reforms that only government can provide. Lord, we ask You to purify our love of country and our commitment to the labor movement that both may be true to their principles and faithful to their ideals. Help us to safeguard all that is good in our common heritage and to strive for even greater progress in the future. Heal the wounds that injustice has inflicted on our people. Break down the barriers that divide us both here and abroad. Give us all the strength to serve and to give us and our families good health so that we may minister to others. Almighty God, You have charged us with a task of building upon this earth a home where all nations may dwell in unity. Help us to work together for the common good. Finally, we pray for peace, and all that makes for peace, for the generosity to share the goods of this earth with those less privileged than ourselves, for the courage to overcome those barriers that stand in the way of human solidarity with workers everywhere. We exalt in the knowledge that when we serve and help our brothers and sisters in the labor movement and beyond, we are serving You.
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