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Registered nurses at Kimball Medical Center and St. Barnabas Behavioral Health Center are set to ratify a first contract reached between the New Jersey Nurses Union/CWA Local 1091 and the employer.

A sea of union members, retirees and activists, joined by members of the House and Senate, rallied on Capitol Hill to send a message to the Bush administration and Congress who want to privatize Social Security and cut benefits.

CWA reached a tentative agreement with Cingular Wireless covering 5,300 workers under the "Orange Contract" in Districts 1, 2, 4, 7, 9 and 13. The mail ratification vote, conducted by the American Arbitration Association, was being finalized as the CWA News went to press.

CWA President Morton Bahr, who will retire as CWA president at the union's convention in August, will be honored Sept. 22 in Washington, D.C., at a dinner sponsored by the Yitzhak Rabin Center and chaired by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney.

The Federal Communications Commission is considering lifting the current ban on the use of cell phones by airline passengers during flight, and that's a nightmare scenario for flight attendants and the traveling public, said Pat Friend, president of AFA-CWA.