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The future looked bleak for some Local 4900 members when SBC in Indianapolis declared a surplus and in December closed their small department, a call-in support desk for customer service representatives and managers.

The New York Times' fight to preserve a free press in the face of government threats and a Washington Post reporter's series on abuse and neglect in Virginia's assisted living centers took top honors at The Newspaper Guild-CWA's annual Freedom Award Fund banquet March 30 in Washington, D.C.

New leaders have been selected for Districts 1 and 13 by the CWA Executive Board. Chris Shelton succeeds Larry Mancino as District 1 vice president, and Jim Short will serve the remaining term of District 13 Vice President Vince Maisano. Both Mancino and Maisano retired April 2.

Engineers, librarians, social workers are just a few of the titles of 534 professional employees in Jacksonville, Fla., who voted 327-36 for CWA representation in an election run by the state Public Employee Relations Commission.

The notion that workers in the South view unions suspiciously turned out to be a myth in the case of the Ridgeland call center group.