Madelyn Elder named to CWA Executive Board

Madelyn Elder has been named to the Executive Board of the Communications Workers of America. Elder is president of Portland Local 7901, a post she has held since 2000. She served as secretary-treasurer of the local from 1994-99. The local represents more than 1,500 workers primarily in communications. Eld-er is one of 23 board members set-ting policy and directing programs for the national union, which rep-resents 700,000 members in tele-communications, media, the public sector, health care, education, manufacturing and airlines across the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Elder and three other new CWA Executive Board mem-bers were sworn in Oct. 17. Their positions, approved by delegates to the union’s annual convention in July, were created to increase div-ersity in CWA’s leadership by bringing local officers and activists on board.