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Supported by newspaper advertising, mobilization activities around the country and a strike vote, CWA leaders were bargaining furiously trying to reach an agreement with Lucent Technologies as the CWA News went to press.

Welcome to the first edition of Retirees Matter. Thanks to President Morton Bahr, Executive Vice President Larry Cohen and our retiree mentor and RMC founder, Secretary-Treasurer Barbara Easterling, this will be the first article in the CWA News strictly relating to retiree concerns.

Oregon State Representative Diane Rosenbaum, a member of CWA Local 7901 for 24 years, has been elected president of the National Labor Caucus of State Legislators, a bipartisan group that gives union-member and pro-worker legislators a chance to share ideas and develop a common legislative ag

All of the Bell companies have planned or already introduced Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, which lets customers speak into a handset attached to a computer and carry on a conversation over DSL lines.

Management tried hard to convince Children's Aid and Family Services workers not to form a union, but with employees of the non-profit agency working right next to represented state workers in Department of Youth and Family Services offices, its pleas went unheeded.