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Mississippi Workers on Target for $1,500 Raise

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March 1, 1999
Continuous lobbying and mobilization by the Mississippi Alliance of State Employees/ CWA Local 3570 has resulted in a legislative victory that will almost certainly lead to $1,500 a year raises for as many as 30,000 state workers, according to MASE/CWA President Brenda Scott.

Ray Murray, Long-Time Staffer, Dies

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March 1, 1999
Raymond Joseph (Ray) Murray, who served the union in a pivotal role during the pattern bargaining era that eventually led to national bargaining with AT&T and the Bell System, died on Jan 29.

Organized Labor, from A to Z

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March 1, 1999
The Lexicon of Labor
by Robert Emmett Murray
New Press, New York
207 pages, soft cover, $13.95



A former Newspaper Guild-CWA local president has literally written the book from "A" to "Z" on the labor movement.

Correction

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March 1, 1999
The CWA News in the February 1999 issue inadvertently identified Nancy Rocha as president of The Newspaper Guild-CWA Local 32100, the Translators and Interpreters Guild. In fact, on Jan. 1, 1999, Alan Gleason succeeded Ms. Rocha, who now serves TTIG as vice president.