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

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.

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.

A beloved executive vice president of CWA gave his final report at the 1998 convention, but left the stage with a resounding reassurance he will always be welcomed back. The delegates unanimously voted to bestow upon M.E. Nichols the title Executive Vice President Emeritus.

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.