Executive Board Creates Committee on Diversity

The CWA Executive Board has established a committee to review options to increase the diversity of the Board. The committee will be chaired by Secretary-Treasurer Barbara Easterling and consist of three Board members, two members of the National Women's Committee and two members of the National Committee on Equity — to be selected by members of those committees.

This new Executive Board Committee on Diversity will follow up on Ready for the Future Proposal #10, which discusses Board diversity. The committee will develop options, meet with the Board and issue a report to the 2007 convention. Among options to be discussed are electing at-large members to the Executive Board to achieve balance in keeping with the AFL-CIO resolution on diversity adopted in July 2005.

"I look forward to chairing this committee," Easterling said.  "I know the Executive Board is behind this effort and together we can come up with excellent recommendations that can make our union even stronger."