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By a three-to-one margin, members of the Communications Workers of America at Southwestern Bell ratified a new 32-month agreement that provides significant improvements in wages and pensions, as well as employment security gains, for some 43,000 CWA-represented employees.

An early tentative settlement at AT&T includes strong wage, profit sharing and pension gains along with improvements in health care and other benefits and a breakthrough in organizing areas such as AT&T Wireless that currently are non-union.

In the first settlement of this year's major round of labor talks in the telecommunications industry, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) announced tentative new contracts at Pacific Telesis and Southwestern Bell that provide strengthened employment security, significant improvements in wage

National contract negotiations between the Communications Workers of America and AT&T get underway Monday, April 6, in Washington, D.C. CWA represents nearly 50,000 employees at AT&T; the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers represents about 1,800.

Knight-Ridder must include in its proxy to shareholders a proposal by The Newspaper Guild-Communications Workers of America that links executive compensation to the chain's adherence to principles of community accountability and responsibility and other tenets of good journalism.