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Albert Stanley Bowles, a CWA veteran whose union career began more than 50 years ago, died Jan. 3 in an Austin, Texas, hospital after suffering complications from heart surgery. He was 79.

During the holiday lull, President George Bush quietly revoked President Clinton’s order designed to bar companies from receiving federal contracts if they violate environmental and labor standards.

Scores of people working in and around the World Trade Center collapse are reporting coughs, respiratory infections, headaches and other medical problems that doctors — including some now associated with CWA — are studying to determine whether the symptoms are linked to air quality at the disaster s

Fast track passed the House by a single vote in December, 215-214, with 21 Democrats joining most Republicans in approving the anti-worker bill.

GE, home to 20,000 IUE-CWA members in the United States, has become the seventh-largest employer in the world. Over the last two decades the corporate behemoth has exported 130,000 good-paying union jobs to countries that pay less than a subsistence wage and that routinely violate workers’ rights.