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After battling a long list of concession demands for more than a year, Lexington (Ky.) Newspaper Guild leaders are urging approval of a tentative five-year agreement at the Lexington Herald-Leader that was worked out with the help of mediation last week. The local represents 90 newsroom workers who are set to vote on the pact next Tuesday.

A savvy political activist and outspoken feminist, Nelle P. Horlander, retired CWA Kentucky state director, died Jan. 21 at a care center in Louisville at age 78.

Apparently still fuming over having to fork over $65 million to settle a lawsuit by technical support employees who charged the company cheated them out of overtime, IBM discovered a way to pay them back.

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Corporate America is positively giddy over the NLRB's decision last month to let companies bar employees from using work e-mail accounts to communicate about union business.