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Members of CWA Local 7670 at Verizon Northwest, formerly GTE Northwest, have ratified a three-year agreement that provides improvements in wages and benefits for about 700 workers in Idaho and eastern Washington.

Down-to-the-wire bargaining has led to a new contract for 500 CWA members at Alltel Corp. in Lincoln, Neb.

Imagine you’re a housebound senior disabled by a fall, but eager to walk again. Your chances of recovery are good because you’ve got an experienced physical therapist visiting your home three times a week.

CWA has renegotiated the historic national agreement reached with GTE in 1998, winning major retirement security gains and other improvements in a tentative pact covering 24,000 employees at the former GTE units of Verizon.

As the top teams in baseball headed into the World Series, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney and CWA President Morton Bahr joined Local 14177 members in appealing to Major League players for help to end the union’s strike against New Era Cap Co.