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In a farewell convention speech filled with his trademark humor, retiring Secretary-Treasurer Jeff Rechenbach outlined the challenges CWA faces but also its strengths: dedicated activists and leaders with a shared passion to make things better for members, their families and all workers.

Firing up CWA convention delegates Monday, one of Capitol Hill's truest champions for workers and their rights condemned the anti-union corporate ideology that is gripping Washington and threatening to strangle America's middle class.

To strengthen CWA in a tough economy that has cost jobs and members, convention delegates on Tuesday adopted a resolution to redistribute, for two years, part of the income generated by the union's Strategic Industry Fund.

From protecting Medicare to opposing the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, stopping voter suppression and battling state attacks on workers' rights, resolutions that CWA convention delegates passed this week had a central theme: Taking action and continuing to build a broad-based movement to fight back.

In a critical time for raising funds to fight back against attacks on working families, Districts 1 and 6 were honored this week for their members' CWA Political Action contributions, a collective $1.8 million over the past year.