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Negotiations with Sprint Corp. are underway for a unit in Tennessee and will begin soon in Indiana and Florida, said Jimmy Gurganus, CWA vice president for telecommunications.

Ending a two-year struggle for a contract, 80 workers at a Los Angeles-area jewelry manufacturer have voted to accept a $675,000 settlement that gives them a measure of economic justice while allowing their employer to move the plant to Mexico.

Cingular Wireless retail workers in Puerto Rico were already celebrating a breakthrough in organizing, with American Arbitration Association certification for 325 employees at nine regional stores and 115 kiosks, when on Aug.

Fortune magazine recently excoriated the 25 “greediest executives” who cashed in on billions in insider stock sales while many of them knew their companies were about to nose-dive — in some cases, even while cooking the books to keep the rest of us in the dark.

The AFL-CIO is working to secure severance pay, medical coverage and other benefits for laid off WorldCom workers and is meeting with WorldCom attorneys to press the company to keep its promises.