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Middle-class workers would suffer dramatic cuts in guaranteed retirement benefits under President Bush's latest scheme to dismantle Social Security, and economists say the irony is that they'd lose more than they would if nothing is done to shore up the Social Security Trust Fund.

The CWA 67th Annual Convention this August will pay special tribute to members of the CWA family who are serving or who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

We ask that you send us photographs of members or family members serving in these conflicts along with information about them.

A new IUE-CWA Sector president took the oath of office on April 8. Jim Clark, IUE-CWA Automotive Conference Board chairman, succeeds Mike Bindas, who retired March 31 after 49 years of service to the manufacturing union, which merged with CWA in 2000.

CWA Secretary-Treasurer Barbara J. Easterling recently spent a day with officers and members of IUE-CWA Local 81455 as the local was set to begin contract negotiations with the Trane Co., in Trenton, N.J.

CWA's public employees and flight attendants would be among millions of workers newly covered by federal safety and health laws under a bill introduced on Workers Memorial Day by Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.).