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DAILY AGENDA
Schedule Subject to Change
Last Updated 8/8/2025
Monday, August 11
Convention Convenes — 9:00 am
Cindy Neumeyer, President, CWA Local 13500
Temporary Chair
Invocation
John Lewis
Member, IUE-CWA Local 83761
Presentation of Colors
Pittsburgh Firefighters Local 1 Honor Guard
Matt Novotny, Bagpiper
Pittsburgh Firefighters Memorial Pipe Band
National Anthem of Canada
Jeanette J. Spoor, President, Retired Members Council 1103
National Anthem of Puerto Rico
1st Lt. Luis Benitez-Burgos, U.S. Army Reserve
Staff Representative, District 1
National Anthem of the United States
Jeanette J. Spoor, President, Retired Members Council 1103
Welcome
Representative Summer Lee, U.S. Congress, Pennsylvania, District 12
Representative Christopher Deluzio, U.S. Congress, Pennsylvania, District 17
The Honorable Joshua Shapiro, Governor of Pennsylvania
Introduction
Michael Davis, Vice President District 2-13
President’s Address
Claude Cummings Jr., CWA President
Remarks
Christy Hoffman, General Secretary, UNI Global Union
Presentation
Eduardo Diaz Union to Union International Solidarity Fund
Committee Reports
Credentials Committee
Resolutions and Rules Committee
Remarks
Ameenah Salaam, CWA Secretary-Treasurer
Committee Reports
Finance Committee
Recess — 1:00 to 2:30 pm
Call to Order — 2:30 pm
Election Rules
Nominations
Committee Reports
Constitution Committee
Defense Fund Oversight Committee
Resolutions and Rules Committee
Recess
District Meetings
Fifteen minutes after the Convention recesses, meetings will be held for the purpose of nominations for trial panel and DFOC elections.
Polls
Polls open 45 minutes after recess in David L. Lawrence Convention Center Hall A.
Tuesday, August 12
Convention Convenes — 9:00 am
Invocation
Father Matthew Hawkins,
St. Benedict the Moor, Pittsburgh, PA
Installation of Officers
Report
Retired Members’ Council
Committee Reports
National Committee on Civil Rights and Equity
National Women’s Committee
Presentation
Pediatric AIDS Awards
Committee Reports
Resolution and Rules Committee
Memorial Service
Convention Recess — 12:00 to 1:30 pm
Call to Order — 1:30 pm
Awards of Appreciation
Organizing Awards
CWA STRONG Award
President’s Award
Political Action Fund Awards
Committee Reports
Appeals Committee
Resolutions and Rules Committee
Good & Welfare
Adjournment