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Imagine being able to deal with your long distance phone company, your cable service, your wireless provider — maybe your local phone company, too — in a single telephone call.

One-stop shopping, with a minimum of canned music.

James E. Irvine announced at the CWA Executive Board meeting Jan. 10 that he was stepping down as vice president for Communications and Technologies, after 35 years of service to CWA.

Rather than fight a judge’s order barring him from relocating to Mexico, the owner of a Los Angeles-area jewelry company has agreed to stay put and bargain with his newly unionized employees.

Seattle’s first newspaper strike in 47 years ended Jan. 8, after workers ratified a contract hammered out during a marathon bargaining session in Washington, D.C.

CWA has won a first contract for more than 2,100 workers at Cingular Wireless operations in Illinois, Massachusetts, New York and Maryland.