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Delegates to the CWA convention elected Larry Cohen as executive vice president. Cohen, who has served as CWA organizing director and assistant to the president, won election over CWA District 7 Vice President Sue Pisha. He succeeds M.E.

In the first year of its "$2 Million by 2000" program, CWA members contributed $1,575,047, CWA Sec.-Treas. Barbara Easterling reported, and increased their contributions over 1996 levels by $185,652.

NABET-CWA negotiators this month are continuing to search for contracts with two of the nation’s top television networks — Disney/ABC and NBC.

Even as the state of New Jersey started spewing out layoff notices like pieces of confetti on Sept. 21, CWA members and local officers were fighting back with a mock New Orleans-style funeral to protest the death of state-run auto inspections.

Phil C. Padgett, who guide CWA’s Western Electric Installation bargaining unit through the rocky shoals of Bell System divestiture in the mid-1980s, died on Aug. 24 in Palm Valley, Fla., near St. Augustine.