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Delegates to the IUE-CWA Automotive Conference Board on June 15 unanimously elected Willie Thorpe as chairman to succeed Henry Reichard, who died earlier this month.

CWA Executive Vice President Jeff Rechenbach and Local 2204 member Teresa Joyce appeared at a workshop called Take Back the Workplace, as part of this week's Take Back America Conference in Washington, D.C.

Creative outreach by CWA organizers has resulted in 275 new members in a variety of bargaining units.

Union leaders across the labor movement are furious with three New Jersey lawmakers, all Democrats, who want to slash state workers' pay and benefits by 15 percent rather than support the governor's plan for a modest sales tax hike to fix the state's fiscal problems.

Joseph E. Murphy, 80, a retired assistant to the vice president of the former CWA District 8, died May 19, following a brief bout with cancer.