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Months of hard work by CWA and fellow union members helped a number of working family candidates to victory Nov. 5, particularly at the state level, but their efforts couldn’t match unprecedented campaign spending — $710 million — by business interests.

IUE-CWA members locked out by Fenn Manufacturing in Newington, Conn., are getting strong support from the state’s congressional delegation, Republicans and Democrats.

An eight-week strike that all but shut down the Victoria Times-Colonist in British Columbia has been settled, but striking members of The Newspaper Guild-CWA at two Ontario papers and locked-out workers at another were maintaining picket lines as the CWA News went to press.

CWA has called on Sprint Corp. to put its public praise for local telephone company employees into action at the bargaining table, where workers in several units continue to fight for fair contracts.

CWA members in New York state concluded a 3-week strike against Butler Fleet Services on Sept. 21, with the company agreeing to a retroactive pay raise of 3 percent for a full year and 4 percent to the end of 2002.