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CWA and BellSouth Corp. opened bargaining June 14 in Atlanta for a new contract covering nearly 48,000 workers. The current agreement expires Aug. 7.

Key issues for CWA include jobs and job security, maintaining quality, affordable health care and improved job conditions.

Is there anything better on a hot summer day - heck is there anything better on any day - than ice cream?

The first sign of trouble struck during one of their frequent layovers in Japan. Toni Diamond and her husband, fellow United Airlines flight attendant Warren Schiffer, were out for a walk in early 2000 when she lost control of her left foot. Before long, her leg was numb.

CWA Representative Jack Dotson, 57, has retired. In the late 1970s, he helped found the Virginia CWA Council, one of the union's first state councils, active on behalf of numerous labor-friendly candidates for public office and in raising thousands of dollars in contributions to CWA-COPE.

Gloria Johnson remembers, word for word, the letter she got from the head of a manufacturing company 40 years ago while she was helping review every IUE contract to ensure that the language reflected the new Civil Rights Act of 1964.