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Despite controversy surrounding the 2000 presidential election, most Americans were willing to accept the legitimacy of the new president and to take him at his word: that he was a "compassionate" man rather than a hard-line rightist, and that he was "a uniter, not a divider."

Wrong on both coun

A five-month-long work stoppage at Summit County Children's Services in Akron, Ohio, came to an end with an agreement to resolve the dispute between CWA Local 4546 and the county through mediation and arbitration.

A New Jersey federal district court judge threw out a nine-count lawsuit filed last year by Verizon Wireless against CWA.

In a national union representation election, workers at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation voted decisively for representation by the Canadian Media Guild, a local union of The Newspaper Guild/Canada, CWA.

TNG-CWA Local 31041 reached a tentative agreement with Providence Journal management that provides real improvement in wages, pensions and other benefits.