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CWA Local 6320 member Jan Jarnagin has been with SBC in St. Louis, Mo., for 24 years. She just got a promotion from senior reports clerk to DSL network center technician. With one son starting college in the fall and another just a year behind, the pay increase will help.

CWA Representative Lawrence "Jack" Baccari, 61, died suddenly of a heart attack May 26, while in a Bell South arbitration meeting in Birmingham, Ala.

In 2001, public sector union leader Hector Giraldo fled Colombia under a death threat. After seeing his union president gunned down by paramilitaries, he spent a year in the United States, spreading the word to trade unionists and others about the horrors union members face in his country.

Honoring the memory of Ed Spillet, a NABET-CWA staff representative who died of juvenile diabetes last December, CWA headquarters employees joined District 2 locals and Verizon workers for Washington, D.C.'s Walk to Cure Diabetes in May. Walkers included CWA Pres. Morton Bahr.