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CWA won representation rights for more than 25,000 working men and women across the United States and Canada during the last year, CWA President Morton Bahr told delegates, alternates and guests attending the union’s 60th annual convention in Chicago.

Delegates to CWA’s 60th convention were shocked by statistics and graphic images demonstrating that violence against women in the home is a serious national and international problem. CWA Sec.-Treas. Barbara Easterling, for one, stressed that, "Domestic Violence is a Workplace Issue."

CWA marked its 60th anniversary by returning for this year’s convention to Chicago, where the union’s founding President, Joseph A. Beirne, made the motion on June 15, 1938, "that a national union be formed."

From the Telegraph to the Internet is an important book for all who are concerned about the future of the American labor movement.

From the Telegraph to the Internet written by CWA President Morton Bahr in commemoration of the union’s 60th anniversary, is a personal journal spanning five decades of trade union activism that combines equal parts of history, policy and vision.