CWA 75th National Convention Election Results

CWA 1298 Executive Board attended the 75th CWA National Convention this week as delegates.   During the convention Chris Shelton was elected our National President  replacing Larry Cohen.  Chris Shelton has served as Vice President of CWA District 1 representing more than 160,000 members in New Jersey New York and New England. Dennis Trainor was elected to replace serve as the new district Vice President. The following is the breakout of other elections: Sara Steffens was elected CWA secretary-treasurer. Brooks Sunkett was re-elected vice president of the Public, Health Care and Education Workers sector. Lisa Bolton was elected vice president of the Telecommunications and Technology sector. Delegates also elected four at-large diversity members of the Executive Board: Carolyn Wade, re-elected for the Northeast region; Vera Mikell elected for the Southeast region; Anetra Session elected for the Central region, and Frank Arce elected for the Western region. In Districts 1 (New Jersey, New York and New England), delegates elected Dennis Trainor as vice president. For District 2-13 (mid-Atlantic), District 4 (Midwest) and District 6 (Southwest), delegates re-elected Vice Presidents Ed Mooney, Linda Hinton and Claude Cummings. In District 7 (Plains, Mountain states and Northwest), delegates elected Brenda Roberts. In District 9 (California, Nevada and Hawaii), delegates elected Tom Runnion. In District 3 (Southeast) results are pending a runoff vote on June 9. Read more at: http://www.cwa-union.org/news/entry/communications_workers_of_america_elect_new_national_and_district_leaders