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CWA President Morton Bahr and other labor leaders are urging union members throughout the country to quickly speak up in support of President Clinton's Patients' Bill of Rights.

Despite angry protests from CWA, prominent politicians and editorial writers, Ameritech on Aug. 14 announced that the company plans to move ahead with its controversial decision, first announced last March, to close two consumer offices.

CWA members have voted 4-1 to authorize a strike against Alltel in Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Ohio and Alabama.

As picket lines went up at Southern New England Telephone facilities throughout Connecticut, CWA stepped up its media and mobilization campaign aimed at winning a fair settlement for some 6,300 SNET workers.

CWA public worker local leaders and members in New Jersey have got Gov. Christine Whitman - once the darling of the conservative branch of the Republican party - on the ropes in the fight to protect public services and state jobs.