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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.

American taxpayers shouldn't have to subsidize the purchase of AirTouch Communications by the British company Vodafone, CWA declared in urging the Internal Revenue Service to deny AirTouch's request for a waiver of IRS rules to make the acquisition tax-free for shareholders.

In 1994, Kathy Sterling, president of CWA Local 4203, took time out for an extended trip to Washington. Kathy was working on her master's degree in conflict resolution at Antioch University when she was selected for a Congressional Fellowship on Women and Public Policy.

Join your union sisters for the 24th Northeast Summer Institute for Union Women at the National Labor College, George Meany Center for Labor Studies, in Silver Spring, Md.

TNG-CWA staffers in the D.C. Labor Chorus joined their voices with those of about 20 members of Congress on March 8, as folk singer Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary fame) led a '60s-style songfest on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.