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Delegates to CWA's 67th annual convention were witnesses to history as the union gave an emotional and grateful sendoff to the union's president for the past 20 years, Morton Bahr, and enthusiastically welcomed Larry Cohen as his successor.

The hundreds - and perhaps thousands - of CWA families along the Gulf Coast who suffered the wrath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have lost homes, cars, pets and, in some cases, friends and relatives.

Ensuring voting rights for all, protecting pensions and keeping American jobs at home were among the issues delegates pledged to fight for in resolutions passed at CWA's 67th annual convention.

Rick White is a longtime CWA supporter who worked for IBM Corp. in New York State for more than 28 years before his work was transferred to Endicott Interconnect Technologies.

More than 5,000 former AT&T Wireless workers at Cingular have opted for CWA representation - most of them just in the past three months, since they became covered by the neutrality and card check organizing agreement on July 1.