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Delegates passed 13 resolutions, ranging from issues of the economy to foreign trade, health care and equal rights.

Standing together in bargaining, organizing and in their resolve to take back America for working families, more than 2,800 registered delegates and guests cheered CWA national leaders, 2004 presidential candidates and outspoken local leaders at the union's 2003 convention, Aug.

Striking members of Kentucky Locals 3371, Ashland, and 3372, Lexington, were voting on a proposed settlement with ALLTEL as the CWA News went to press.

The three-year contract, with annual wage hikes of 3.5 percent, would end the summer-long strike.

About 50 CWA members, unemployed tech workers and other protesters gathered outside San Francisco's Hyatt Regency hotel Sept. 16 to rally against moving jobs offshore, the subject of a two-day conference for executives trying to cut costs at any expense.

In a big victory for IUE-CWA, an arbitrator has ordered Delphi Corp. to rehire more than 400 workers laid off in January from the Harrison Thermal plant in Moraine, Ohio, finding the company violated a 1996 memorandum of understanding.