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Members of CWA Local 1701, Alliance@IBM, voiced the concerns of thousands of workers and shareholders at the IBM Corp., annual meeting in Charleston, S.C.

AFA-CWA flight attendants at United Airlines are fighting against the airline's deal with the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp., to terminate employee pension plans.

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The Federal Communications Commission is considering lifting the current ban on the use of cell phones by airline passengers during flight, and that's a nightmare scenario for flight attendants and the traveling public, said Pat Friend, president of AFA-CWA.

CWA President Morton Bahr, who will retire as CWA president at the union's convention in August, will be honored Sept. 22 in Washington, D.C., at a dinner sponsored by the Yitzhak Rabin Center and chaired by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney.