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Directors of the Joseph Anthony Beirne Memorial Foundation approved partial college scholarships of up to $3,000 each for 30 first-year and 100 second-year students, and also granted funding to eight projects devoted to labor education and workers' rights.

Members of CWA Local 6139, on strike at Helena Laboratories in Beaumont, Texas, want the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to force the company to clean up its act - and the dangerous working conditions at the plant.

Gov. Parris Glendening, on his way to dedicate The Washington Post's new $230 million printing plant in College Park, Md., March 8, stopped to encourage TNG-CWA Local 35 members who demonstrated outside.

CWA warned that the University of California is undermining the quality of its research programs - and jeopardizing advances in medicine, the sciences and technology - by its employment and funding practices.

The bid by Alltel Corp. to take over Nebraska-based Aliant Communications Inc. would harm both consumers and employees and should be rejected, CWA told the Federal Communications Commission.