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CWA members at Bell Atlantic/ Verizon set out this year to win respect from management and secure their futures at the new company that was born from the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE in June.

Many observers found a broad, even historic, significance for society in the recent Verizon strike.It was widely noted that the strike defined workplace issues for the "

James M. Massey, who retired in 1971 as a CWA executive vice president, has died after a long illness. He was 91. Massey worked as an installer at the Western Electric Co. for 20 years, traveling all over the United States with the company before being hired by CWA.

A pregnancy discrimination suit involving more than 400 women who work or worked for Cincinnati Bell — most of them CWA members — is close to being resolved.

Hours after word spread that Joseph Lieberman was Vice President Al Gore’s pick for a running mate, the Connecticut senator proudly took the podium at a gathering of his home state’s AFL-CIO members.