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Selina Burch Stanford, whose CWA staff career spanned more than three decades, died Oct. 20 of cancer at Hospice Atlanta. She was 75.

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The Newspaper Guild-CWA, and its conference co-sponsors, the American Federation of Teachers and the AFL-CIO’s Department for Professional Employees, have targeted four specific threats to free expression and professional rights that they have vowed to fight:

• Proposed FCC policy changes that

You’ve got a hundred or more channels on TV cable, loads of AM, FM and even satellite radio stations, your bookstore sells countless magazines and newspapers and there are infinite news sites on the Internet.

Bonnie Daly celebrates a back-pay award of more than $35,000 from Verizon with CWA leaders who helped her obtain it. The company fired Daly, of Local 1126 in Utica, N.Y., for misconduct in the alleged mobile picketing of a manager during CWA’s strike against the company in 2000.