LONGTIME CWA COMMUNICATIONS CHIEF JEFF MILLER RETIRES

Sunday, December 21, 2008

(PAI)

WASHINGTON (PAI)--From Joe Bierne to Larry Cohen, from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush, Communications Workers Communications Director Jeff Miller has been fighting -- and writing -- about workers’ causes for 35 years. But on Dec. 31, he will lay down his pen and retire, he told the CWA News. In 1973, labor represented 25% of the workforce, and even Nixon “wouldn’t think to appoint a Labor Secretary (Ray Brennan) without first clearing it with George Meany and the AFL-CIO….Collective bargaining elevated standards everywhere and most Americans had employer-paid health care and pensions,” Miller wrote. Now the union movement is fighting back -- with Cohen among the leaders -- and “reigniting the militant spirit” of the 1930s and 1940s. Miller promises to still be among the fighters, but not among the writers. ###