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It’s is a big bargaining year in the public sector as well as telecommunications. In 1998 CWA public and health care workers will lobby, negotiate and mobilize for job security, better pay and benefits and improved working conditions for thousand of members.

The second session of the 105th Congress will produce a mixed bag of threats and promises, CWA’s legislative team predicts.

• Threats are already surfacing in the form of anti-worker, anti-union attacks — especially aimed at occupational safety and health protections and workers’ rights.

A state initiative on the June ballot in California is one of the most threatening assaults on the political rights of working Americans that union members have ever faced.

John Doran, president of CWA Local 9413, Reno, Nev., doesn’t give up easily.

He’s been battling for nearly two years to win justice — and a union contract — for the 51 residential advisors at the Sierra Nevada Job Corps center near Reno.

One Oscar winner has already being unveiled – but you may not see the presentation when the Academy Awards ceremonies are telecast by ABC-TV on March 23.

. . . . Drum roll . . . .

. . . . And the winner is . . . .