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When CWA President Morton Bahr approves a staff retirement, he usually just signs his name. In the case of Assistant to the President Hugh Walsh, Bahr appended to his signature - with a double underscore - the word "reluctantly." Walsh retired Dec. 31 at age 55.

Cancer Claims Theodore 'Tevie' Volk, Veteran CWA Leader in South
Theodore "Tevie" Volk Jr., who rose from the ranks at Southern Bell to become vice president of CWA's former District 10, died at his Talladega, Ala., home Dec. 7 after a nine-month battle with lung cancer. He was 80.

Dear Editor:

Janelle Hartman had an interesting article about media and democracy in the 2002, November/December issue of the CWA News. After reading it I am more optimistic about unions themselves playing a critical role in providing news.

New Zealand may be halfway around the world, but labor leaders say severe rollbacks in its deregulated telecom industry, with dire consequences for its once-unionized workforce, is a cautionary tale for telecommunications workers in the United States.

Joined by a growing chorus of voices opposed to letting big media companies get even bigger, CWA leaders testified in January at a New York City forum on proposed changes in Federal Communications Commission rules that were created to ensure that TV, radio and newspapers would be in the hands of man