News

An online magazine has named IBM workers its “Disgruntled Employees of the Year” for an ongoing effort to organize with the help of CWA. Alliance@IBM/CWA was formed after the company schemed to reduce pension plan benefits for mid-career workers.

David P. Kent, associate editor of the CWA News and a union staff member since 1966, died on Dec. 31, 1999 after a 10-month battle against lung cancer. He was 61.

Frank Lupinacci, a retired staff representative in District 13 remembered as a tough negotiator with a sense of humor, died Jan. 13 of complications from Alzheimer’s Disease.

Terry Getty, a retired CWA member with three decades of union service, has been inducted into the East Central Iowa/North Western Illinois AFL-CIO Hall of Fame.

The flash flood that turned Albert Gomalka’s neighborhood into a deadly, diseased, putrid-smelling, mud-covered landfill seemed like the type of catastrophe that strikes faraway countries.