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Lucent Technologies' attacks on retiree health care took center stage as joint bargaining opened in Washington, D.C. and as Exec. VP Larry Cohen addressed a Health Care Action Week crowd in Cleveland.

Please join us at the National Labor College as we commemorate Workers Memorial Day on April 28. As you will see on the attached flyer, the program begins with a 1 p.m. seminar on "Winning Benefits and Compensation for Those Whose Health Was Damaged in Rescue and Cleanup at the World Trade Center." The panel will have activists and victims from the tragedy. At 2:30 we will begin a candlelight ceremony remembering those who have died from workplace injury and illness.

Announced job cuts in September, numbering 107,863, leaped by 45 percent from the August figure and hit an 8-month high.

Crediting the efforts of CWA's Verizon locals in New York, District 1 Vice President Larry Mancino reported that the company has suspended its efforts to sell off access lines in upstate New York.

A lifelong Republican until now, John Eisenhower, 82-year-old son of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, explained in a guest column in the Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader why he plans to vote for John Kerry this year.