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About 80 striking Local 1101 members in Clinton, N.J., returned to work at Sprint-New Jersey on June 2, after ratifying an agreement similar to those won by 3,700 Sprint workers in seven other bargaining units earlier this year. The pacts raise wages by an average of 9 percent over three years.

CWA bargainers have reached tentative agreements with Avaya and OFS in the first set of negotiations with the former Lucent Technologies operations.

A week after voting to authorize a strike if necessary, members of The Newspaper Guild-CWA Local 32035 at the Baltimore Sun strongly yet angrily ratified a four-year contract June 24, two hours before their previous contract expired.

CWA reached a tentative early settlement with Qwest Communications that protects health care and other benefits and sets up a bonus plan that ensures workers will share in Qwest's profitability when the company's financial outlook turns around, CWA District 7 Vice President John Thompson said.

CWA Vice Pres. Ralph Maly, Communications and Technologies, tells AT&T shareholders and executives that providing quality service should be the company's primary focus and that means investment in a quality workforce and plant and equipment improvements.