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A lopsided health care plan and a paltry wage offer led more than 170 Newspaper Guild members at The Vindicator in Youngstown, Ohio, to strike early Nov. 16, the local's first walkout since an eight-month standoff in 1964.

CWA, the AFL-CIO and student groups are ramping up a massive campaign to boycott Kaplan Education Services, a company owned by The Washington Post, to help win a fair contract for mailers and helpers at the newspaper.

Kathleen King, a CWA staff representative in District 1 since December 1981, has retired. King worked as a social worker and supervisor at New Jersey's Division of Youth and Family Services before being hired as a local organizer in 1980, leading to her staff job the next year.

CWA has reached a tentative settlement with US Airways covering 6,000 airport and reservations agents, boosted by an overwhelming strike authorization vote by members.

CWA members across the nation are turning out in droves to fight union busting by Verizon Wireless. It began on Nov. 29 with a rally organized by Local 2202 in Chesapeake, Va. On Dec. 1, it was Local 2201 in Richmond. On Dec.