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American Airlines’ credibility hit a big air pocket when a prominent U.S. senator exposed management for lying in its anti-worker literature during CWA’s organizing campaign among passenger service agents.

More than 50 activists from labor unions, family farms, Jobs with Justice, environmental causes and other groups met at CWA headquarters the first weekend in March to join forces to fight “fast track” trade negotiating authority and other trade deals that cater to corporations at the expense of work

Jerald “J.R.” Garrison, who retired last year as a CWA representative in District 7, died March 10 after a long battle with lung cancer. He was 66.

Buoyed by a visit from CWA President Morton Bahr, more than 200 strikers turned out on the picket line March 20 outside New Era Cap Co.’s Derby, N.Y., plant.

Carol Ann Simmons, a retired member of CWA 4603 in Milwaukee and past officer of Local 7117 in Davenport, Iowa, has been inducted into the East Central Iowa/Northwestern Illinois AFL-CIO Hall of Fame.