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Cingular Wireless, honored at last year's CWA convention for its neutrality in worker organizing drives and track record of treating employees with fairness and respect, has been named the 2003 winner of the Labor-Management Award given by the AFL-CIO's Union Label & Service Trades Department.

Several CWA local presidents in California have been distributing checks from SBC Communications, part of the $1,052,579 proceeds of a wage settlement ordered by an arbitrator on behalf of 267 members.

The California Organization of Police and Sheriffs (COPS) has brought its more than 3,000 members into CWA. Leaders of the two unions announced the signing of an affiliation agreement on April 7.

Think about the names that stick out in your memory from history lessons. George Washington, Ben Franklin, Abe Lincoln, John F. Kennedy and Neil Armstrong are probably some of the people who come to mind.

The contract with Verizon Information Services has been ratified by a better than two-to-one margin.