Arthur Cheliotes

Arthur Cheliotes

2000 WFP Convention

The New York Working Families Party 2000 Convention was held at the Desmond Hotel, March 26.

Attendees included;

Jim Duncan, WFP co-chair and statewide political director of the United Auto Workers
Bertha Lewis, WFP co-chair and chair of New York ACORN
Bob Master, WFP co-chair and statewide political director of the Communication Workers of America
State Senator Eric Schneiderman
Chris Silvera, Treasurer of Teamsters local 808
Dennis Hughes, president New York Federation of Labor
Jose Velazquez, Lithographers local 1 organizer
Ed Vargas, director of the state council of UNITE
Karen Scharff, executive director of Citizen Action New York
Jim Hightower
Maude Hurd, national chair of ACORN
Bradley Erck, a rep. on the Niagara County legislature and UAW Local 686, legislative committee chair
Larry Handley, President Amalgamated Transit Union
Arthur Cheliotes, president of Communication Workers of America local 1180
Hillary Clinton

There were sizable delegations from ACORN and Citizen Action.^[1]

In late 2010 New York City Democratic Socialists of America held several events to build support for the One Nation Rally. On September 16, the local organized a panel with DSA Vice Chair Frances Fox Piven, former ACORN chief Bertha Lewis, and Arthur Cheliotes, president of the Communications Workers of America Local 1180. Despite near-hurricane conditions that night, nearly 40 DSA members and friends attended.^[2]