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To have Going Forward. Lets get a check on the markets. Julie hyman is standing by. Have at least some of the downdraft today having to do with some of the earnings reports we have gotten. The dow falling the most of the three major averages, down one half of 1 . Transportation is a big part of the story. On pacific, the lard was the largest publicly traded railroad in north america. Shares down 3 . Profit spell and shares down 12 , and the company said Going Forward that plunging consumer demand and a strong dollar will be a consistent drag. You can look at the carload on the bloomberg. I am ...

So so were not the old cwa that people think about where it was just telephone employees. Host how is it that you can represent those other people under the umbrella of cwa . Guest well, weve merged a lot of other unions. For instance, the last one we merged was the flight attendants union. And weve represented these folks, for instance, the printers came in to cwa in 1987, and weve been merging other unions since then. Host what are some of the Telecommunications Companies where your workers are represented . Guest at t, frontier, verizon, tmobile, you name it. Host well, speaking of verizon,...

Host David Shelton is president of the Communications Workers of America Union and he is our guest this week on the communicators. Mr. Shelton welcome to cspan. We appreciate your coming over. Give us a snapshot of the cwa if you would. Jaczko we have approximately 700,000 members not only in telecommunications as most people think but in just about every walk of life, every job you could possibly think of. We have reporters, we have nurses, we have even some rocket scientist. We have printers. We have manufacturing folks. You name it we have them. Public workers so we are not the old cwa do p...

Dr. Coles our second speaker is casey clabough. Casey is a professor at Lynchburg College and editor of the james dickey review and is english graduate director. A richmond native who grew up and appomattox county, he has editor of the multivolume best creative nonfiction of the press texas review and a variety of other things. One of the editors of the encyclopedia of virginia, which is online. Hes had a number of fellowships and received a number of awards. He has published over 100 works in anthologies and periodicals, such as the sewanee review, the virginia quarterly review and so on. Aut...

And appomattox county, he has editor of the multivolume best creative nonfiction of the press texas review and a variety of other things. One of the editors of the encyclopedia of virginia, which is online. Hes had a number of fellowships and received a number of awards. He has published over 100 works in anthologies and periodicals, such as the sewanee review, the virginia quarterly review and so on. Author of confederados a novel of the americas. The confederates that left the u. S. At the end of the war and went to brazil. I remember from 30 or 40 years ago reading an article about that. Bi...