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Grassroots Alliance Gears Up to Fight Unfair Trade
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April 1, 2002
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
CWA Mourns J.R. Garrison, Retired District 7 Representative
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April 1, 2002
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.
Bahr Walks with New Era Strikers in Derby
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April 1, 2002
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.
CWA Newsmakers
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April 1, 2002
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.
Bringing Workers’ Heritage to Life Through Song: "Labor’s Troubadour" Celebrates Six Decades of
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April 1, 2002
The mill was made of marble
The machines were made out of gold
And nobody ever got tired
And nobody ever grew old
When I woke from this dream about heaven
I wondered if someday there’d be
A mill like that one down below here on earth
The machines were made out of gold
And nobody ever got tired
And nobody ever grew old
When I woke from this dream about heaven
I wondered if someday there’d be
A mill like that one down below here on earth