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Proceedings and Index of the 57Th Annual Convention - 1995 Proceedings and Index of the 57th Annual Convention - 1995 MONDAY MORNING SESSION July 10,1995 The 57th Annual Convention of the Communications Workers of America, held at the Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California, July 10-11, 1995, convened at nine o'clock, a.m., Temporary Chair Linda Porter, President, Local 9550 and Chair of the CWA Southern California Council, presiding. TEMPORARY CHAIR LINDA PORTER: The Convention will come to order. Will the delegates please take their seats. Good morning. We have a very full agenda this morning, so I want to ask you all to please take your seats. If I could just have your attention for a minute, we need to keep the noise level down. It is hard for the delegates to hear what is going on and to hear the speakers. So I would ask you to please keep the noise level down in the hall. Good morning. My name is Linda Porter. I am President of CWA Local 9550 and Chair of the CWA Southern California Council. I have the honor of serving as your Temporary Chair for this morning's session. I was not able to be with all of you last year in Detroit, so it is a special pleasure for me to open our convention and welcome you to my native land, Southern California and District 9. (Applause) As is our custom, we will begin our convention with a prayer. I would like to call upon Rabbi David Jessel of Heritage Pointe Retirement Community in Mission Viejo for the Invocation. Will the delegates please stand and remain standing after the Invocation for the presentation of the Colors and the singing of the United States and Canadian National Anthems. Rabbi Jessel. RABBI DAVID JESSEL (Heritage Pointe Retirement Community): Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. I didn't want you to stand right at this moment, but since you do get itchy in the bottom and the mind can only take as much as the seat can bear, I won't keep you too long. Let me just say that when the rabbis have their convention, people are all told not to die for at least three days until the rabbis come back. Seeing all of you here, I am wondering who is manning the T.V. stations and the hospitals and the universities and all the many places that you work at. I hope they will still be there when you get back. Maybe they will find they can do without you, who knows? Your union, the Communication Workers of America, can be very proud of its existence and its long history and the fact that you have reached this 57th Convention. I might say to Barbara Easterling you have come a long way, Baby. (Applause) I can say to your President, Morton Bahr, that he has come a long way in the footsteps of Samuel Gompers and all the founders of the labor movement of America which you can all be very proud of. (Applause) O God, this morning as we gather here for this convention, we thank You for all the blessings that You have given upon the labor movement and upon the Communications Workers of America. They have striven, they have fought and they have gained; and they are here this morning because they have come this far with Your help, O God. Teach them, O God, to continue to communicate with people everywhere, not only here, but to listen as well. A writer has said that when the television was invented, people stopped reading and when the telephone was invented, people stopped writing. O Lord, in their endeavors, help them to understand their fellow employees, to understand and perhaps communicate, difficult as it may be, with their employers. Help them to communicate with themselves and, above all, help them, O God, to communicate with You through Your light, through Your influence, whatever religion or persuasion or creed or faith they may be. May their faith in You guide them along the way as they make this a powerful, dynamic and ever growing union. Amen. (Applause) TEMPORARY CHAIR PORTER: Donna Ludolph, Secretary of the Printing, Publishing and Media Workers Sector, will lead us in singing "The Star Spangled Banner" and "O Canada". Our Colors this morning will be presented by the U.S. Marine Corps Color Guard, El Toro Marine Station. We will now have the presentation of the Colors and the national anthems. I want to remind the delegates to please remain standing until the Color Guard has left the hall. ... The delegates remained standing as the U.S. Marine Corps Color Guard, El Toro Marine Station, presented the Colors, and Donna Ludolph sang "The Star Spangled Banner" and "O Canada", after which a dynamic opening video was shown to the delegates ... (Applause) TEMPORARY CHAIR PORTER: First, I would like to say to Donna thank you for doing a great job in getting our Convention off to a rousing start. Give her a round of applause. (Applause) An enormous amount of planning and hard work has gone into our efforts to make this week memorable and enjoyable for you. I am the Chair of the Host Committee, and we have been working overtime to ensure the success of the Convention. I want to take a moment to recognize the other members of the District 9 Host Committee. Please stand as I call your name. ... As each member of the District 9 Host Committee was introduced, the delegation responded with a single clap of recognition ... TEMPORARY CHAIR PORTER: Loretta Tavakol, Secretary-Treasurer, Local 9587; Gloria Castillo, Secretary-Treasurer, Local 9575; Connie Belisle, Second VP, Local 9588; Andrea Montoya, President, Local 9510; Linda V. Firth, Vice President, Local 9000; Teresa Burn, Secretary -Treasurer, Local 9586; Dorianne Garcia, EVP, Local 9510; and CWA Staff representatives Rudy Mendoza and Leslie Jackson. Let's show our appreciation with a big round of applause for the Host Committee. (Applause) Also, I would like to have a round of applause for those who assisted them. And a special thank you to Local 9501 and Andrea and Dorianne. Thank you. (Applause) Throughout the week, the Host Committee will be available to answer your questions and to help make your stay in Anaheim as enjoyable and pleasant as possible. At this time, I want to ask our first guest, Frank E. Feldhaus, Jr., Mayor Pro Tem, City of Anaheim, to come to the podium. He is representing Anaheim Mayor Tom Daly who could not be with us. Please join me in giving a warm CWA welcome to the Mayor Pro Tem of Anaheim, Frank Feldhaus. (Applause) HONORABLE FRANK FELDHAUS (Mayor Pro Tem, City of Anaheim): Thank you, Linda. Good morning. We are in the communications business. Good morning. ... The delegates responded with a loud "Good morning" ... MAYOR PRO TEM FELDHAUS: That's great. Wonderful. Thank you again, Linda, for introducing me. On behalf of the City of Anaheim, I want to extend to all of you a warm welcome on the occasion of your 57th annual Communications Workers of American Convention. We are glad you have chosen our city for this convention. I am sure you will agree that Anaheim has much to offer to visitors to our city. I am also sure your President, Morton Bahr, will agree when I state that I believe these to be exciting times for those in the communications industry. The rapid changes in technology combined with the creativity of thousands of talented professionals such as yourselves, speaks well for all of the people in our dynamic nation. In speaking of changes, I would like to take this opportunity to tell you about some of the exciting changes we in the City of Anaheim are making just to assure your future visits to be different and even more enjoyable. For starters, the next time you return, you will see a dramatic and visually exciting transformation in this entire one thousand one hundred acres that we call the Anaheim Resort Area. We have committed more than $170 million dollars to upgrading this area which encompasses the Convention Center and Disneyland. The upgrade includes undergrounding of the utility wiring, lush landscaping, uniform signage, and significantly upgraded infrastructure. Many of you have also heard about Disney's originally planned $3 billion dollar expansion project. That overly ambitious and costly project has been re-examined and they have returned to the drawing board. We have been advised that an alternate phased plan will be forthcoming and we can expect to know what the first phase of that plan will be by the end of this year. One thing is for sure, it will be done in the true Disney fashion, which is to say, it will capture the hearts and minds of all who visit Disneyland. To the east of us, approximately two miles, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim sold out every game in their entire season this past year. Not bad for a team which finished in last place. I can hardly wait to see what happens when they get better. Of course, they are playing at our new state of the art arena, the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim. If you have not been to an event there, you owe it to yourself to go. It is a magnificent marble structure that has captured the full attention of the sports and entertainment industries. We were especially honored when Barbra Streisand played one quarter of all her North American dates there last summer. And for those of you who saw her HBO Special, it was filmed right there at the pond in Anaheim.
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