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If you were a CWA employee who terminated employment prior to 1974 and who had ten or more years of service with the Union, you may now be eligible for retirement benefits as the result of a change to the CWA Plan for Employees Pensions and Death Benefits recently adopted by the Executive Board.

CWA’s Sprint contracts in Kansas and Missouri were settled together on Feb. 12 — the seventh set of negotiations to produce agreements with the company in this round of bargaining. Telecommunications Vice President T.O.

CWA called on the Federal Communications Commission to either block MCI WorldCom’s proposed acquisition of Sprint Corp., or to impose sufficiently stringent conditions that will remedy the anti-competitive harm to the Internet and long distance markets that would result from the mega-merger.

Armed with authority to call for a strike vote, CWA Vice President Jim Irvine and local leaders at Lucent Technologies’ annual shareholders’ meeting called for an end to subcontracting and challenged CEO Rich McGinn to work with the union to rebuild the company’s damaged reputation on Wall Street.

Among corporations that will be recognized at the AFL-CIO’s Union Industries Show this May for positive labor and community relations is SBC Communications.