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IUE-CWA members are ramping up their "Shame on Whirlpool" campaign, urging the company not to carry out plans to close its Evansville, Ind., refrigerator plant and move their jobs to Mexico.

At AT&T Southeast in District 3, CWA members at BellSouth Telecommunications did not ratify a new three-year contract. The vote was 60 percent against and 40 percent for ratification.

Jim Joyce, former NABET-CWA national vice president and past vice president of NABET-CWA Local 51016, is the new president of NABET-CWA. Joyce was named president by the NABET-CWA board on the retirement Jan. 31 of past president John Clark. An election will be held this summer.

CWAers at Verizon West are making sure that Verizon management gets the message: fair contract without delay.

CWA won top awards at an annual competition for best political and public affairs advertising. The Reed Awards, a project of Campaigns & Elections' Politics magazine, were presented last month in Washington, D.C. to "political and public affairs professionals at the top of their game," the judges said.