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Expanding CWA's online training offerings, the CWA/NETT Academy has announced five new technical courses. Tuition is much lower than similar courses provided commercially and is covered by employer reimbursement provisions in many CWA contracts.

Getting a promotion or raise sometimes means you've got to go back to school. But as a group of SBC workers in Evansville, Ind., discovered, CWA/NETT is making the process of learning far more accessible than trudging off to a college campus with a backpack full of books.

Emmett Mayer, a retired CWA representative in District 6, died of kidney failure Oct. 1, at a residential care facility in Creve Couer, Mo. He was 80.

In one community after another on their two-week journey, pioneering immigrants and activists were greeted by gleeful crowds of union members, religious leaders and other advocates for social justice, all clapping, chanting and waving signs of support.

After 10 months of bargaining and the threat of a strike, CWA members at the Association for Retarded Citizens in New Jersey have emerged with a "model first contract," Local 1037 President Hetty Rosenstein said.