AFL-CIO Installs President Shelton on Executive Council

CWA President Chris Shelton has been installed as a member of the AFL-CIO Executive Council. He also was named to the Executive Committee, the group that is the governing body of the AFL-CIO between Executive Council meetings; the Executive Committee includes the president of the ten biggest AFL-CIO affiliates.

CWA President Chris Shelton at this week's AFL-CIO Executive Board meeting.

Shelton will serve on the AFL-CIO's Political Committee and the Organizing/Strategic Approaches Committee. Sara Nelson, AFA-CWA International President, also is a member of the Executive Council.

The AFL-CIO Executive Council also honored former CWA President Larry Cohen and adopted this resolution:

Larry's journey in CWA began as a public worker in NJ and continued through his election as President in 2005 and ending with the conclusion of his third term in June 2015.

He was a founder of Jobs with Justice in 1987 realizing even then that workers' rights in the U.S. were shut down compared to other democracies, and was the author of the JwJ "I'll be There" pledge – five times a year for someone else's fight as well as my own...

Larry is a leader in the U.S. democracy movement, and chairs the Democracy Initiative, connecting labor, environmental, civil rights and citizen groups around corporate and billionaire money in politics and voting rights as well as other issues like Senate rules on nominations, and in 2013 confirming the five members of the NLRB.

Larry was proud to chair AFL-CIO organizing for ten years and helped lead the fight for the Employee Free Choice Act, celebrating when it passed the House by a large margin and working throughout 2009 to try to get the legislation on the Senate Floor despite rules that required 60 votes.

Larry helped lead the fight against Fast Track in 2014 and 2015 and remains committed to the fight for fair trade not corporate deals that gut our jobs and our pay.

Larry pledged to CWA delegates on his last day as President to be there again, as he started more than 40 years ago, in the streets and across America building the mass movement for economic justice and democracy.

Stay in touch with Larry Cohen at http://signup.eachdaystronger.org.