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Over a remarkable 60-year career of union activism, Dina George Beaumont has seen a lot of CWA history—including the seminal 1947 Bell System strike that led to the formation of the modern union—and she's made some history as well.

Adding fuzzy math to its book of tricks, the increasingly worker-hostile National Labor Relations Board has ordered a new election for 150 Chinese Daily News employees who first voted for representation by The Newspaper Guild-CWA in March 2001.

In a week marked by the decision of three unions to withdraw from the AFL-CIO, delegates to the AFL-CIO Convention voted for big changes that will strengthen organizing, legislative and political activities and the labor movement.

Reporters found at protests are typically observers with notebooks, pens and cameras. But on July 6, scores of journalists turned out with picket signs at federal courthouses to take a stand for a press free from government interference.

District 1 announced that a new scholarship program for labor studies at Cornell University and elsewhere will honor the district's recently retired vice president, Larry Mancino. District 1 Vice President Chris Shelton made the announcement at a dinner in Mancino's honor on June 23.