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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.

In a partial victory for the long-suffering workers at the Chinese Daily News, a National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge has found the newspaper guilty of 14 counts of unfair labor practices in its relentless campaign against unionization for 150 employees.

The Social Security debate took center stage at CWA's annual Legislative-Political Conference in early March as pro-worker lawmakers pledged to block the White House plan to change the system by introducing partial privatization without addressing its real problems.