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CWA President Morton Bahr is one of President Clinton's five appointees to the newly created 21st Century Workforce Commission, which will conduct a study of the skill requirements and training needs of the information technology workforce. The other 10 members of the commission will be named by the Speaker of the House and the Majority Leader of the Senate. The commission will report its findings to the president and the Congress with recommendations for needed legislation and administrative action.
Ida Castro, the new chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, "has deep roots in CWA, going back to 1981 when she worked with me to train 1,000 new shop stewards after we won the New Jersey state election," says CWA Executive Vice President Larry Cohen, who is shown here with Castro, center, at her swearing in. Also pictured is Rosie Torres, CWA legislative representative. In Castro's previous post as director of the Labor Department's Women's Bureau, she actively supported the workers at Sprint La Conexion Familiar who were illegally harassed and fired for trying to organize a union and join CWA. Says Cohen: "Ida promises to bring a new activism to the EEOC, viewing the agency as a tool to defend workers rights."
The annual E.J. Mays Memorial Award, sponsored as part of a scholarship program by the CWA Western New York Council, recently was presented to District 1 Vice President Larry Mancino, shown here with Debbie Hayes, president of Local 1168, Buffalo, who was master of ceremonies at the recent award dinner. The program was set up 25 years ago in honor of Eugene Mays, who when he died was Assistant to the Vice President of CWA District 1 and also a prominent black civil rights activist.
Ida Castro, the new chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, "has deep roots in CWA, going back to 1981 when she worked with me to train 1,000 new shop stewards after we won the New Jersey state election," says CWA Executive Vice President Larry Cohen, who is shown here with Castro, center, at her swearing in. Also pictured is Rosie Torres, CWA legislative representative. In Castro's previous post as director of the Labor Department's Women's Bureau, she actively supported the workers at Sprint La Conexion Familiar who were illegally harassed and fired for trying to organize a union and join CWA. Says Cohen: "Ida promises to bring a new activism to the EEOC, viewing the agency as a tool to defend workers rights."
The annual E.J. Mays Memorial Award, sponsored as part of a scholarship program by the CWA Western New York Council, recently was presented to District 1 Vice President Larry Mancino, shown here with Debbie Hayes, president of Local 1168, Buffalo, who was master of ceremonies at the recent award dinner. The program was set up 25 years ago in honor of Eugene Mays, who when he died was Assistant to the Vice President of CWA District 1 and also a prominent black civil rights activist.