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Kathleen King, a CWA staff representative in District 1 since December 1981, has retired. King worked as a social worker and supervisor at New Jersey's Division of Youth and Family Services before being hired as a local organizer in 1980, leading to her staff job the next year.

CWA, the AFL-CIO and student groups are ramping up a massive campaign to boycott Kaplan Education Services, a company owned by The Washington Post, to help win a fair contract for mailers and helpers at the newspaper.

A lopsided health care plan and a paltry wage offer led more than 170 Newspaper Guild members at The Vindicator in Youngstown, Ohio, to strike early Nov. 16, the local's first walkout since an eight-month standoff in 1964.

Kids have always played a big part in changing the world for the better, and that's certainly been true in the labor movement.

College-bound CWA members and their families are encouraged to apply for any of three different scholarship programs offered by the union.