Local 100's Charles Jenkins Elected to Exec Board of CBTU
Delegates to the 43rd annual International Convention of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) elected TWU Local 100 officer Charles Jenkins, who also heads the New York City Chapter to CBTU, to the body's International Executive Committee. The TWU's delegation to the CBTU convention in Atlanta also included other activists from TWU Locals 100 and 101. The International Union was represented by TWU International Adminstrative Vice President John Bland, who is also a CBTU President in Houston, Texas. TWU members at the CBTU pushed through a resolution supporting mass transit and also gave a workshop on the problem of assaults against transit workers. CBTU is the nation's oldest African-American labor organization. It represents trade unionists from seventy-seven international and national unions with forty two chapters across the country. CBTU struggles to build a national movement for economic, political and social justice for every American.