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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.

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.

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.

Like many CWA members, Gwen Sims had a lump sum pension option, and she chose the cash payout instead of a monthly pension benefit when she retired from Bell South in 2000 at age 50.