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Newsstand and bookstore employees across Manhattan ratified a first contract April 2, winning significant pay raises, a signing bonus and reduced cost for health insurance, said Linda Foley, president of The Newspaper Guild-CWA.

Who do you trust? With their plant on the auction block, workers at Lucent Technologies’ fiber optics plant in Sturbridge, Mass., overwhelmingly chose to believe CWA and IUE-CWA leaders from five different locals who testified to the advantages of unionization.

The mobilization of thousands of CWA members and a very effective corporate campaign produced an agreement to resolve major problems for members at AT&T and to help build a more constructive relationship at the company.

When reporter Mary Hargrove first looked into conditions in Arkansas’ juvenile prisons, what she found was sickening.

Joseph A. Beirne, CWA’s founding president, has joined the company of Samuel Gompers, Mother Jones, Cesar Chavez and other giants of the labor movement enshrined at the Labor Hall of Fame, a permanent exhibit at the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, D.C.