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A professor and students whose work has freed wrongly convicted death row inmates in Illinois, a Sacramento reporter who chronicled a tidy neighborhood's collapse into a dangerous slum and two exceptional student writers were honored in May with The Newspaper Guild-CWA's top awards for journalistic

ABC Pension Proposal Draws Fire
A proposal that would "eviscerate" workers' pensions is among issues that have prolonged bargaining between NABET-CWA and ABC covering 5,000 employees of the Disney-owned network, reported Vice President John Clark.

CWA Pres. Morton Bahr and Association of Flight Attendants Pres. Pat Friend sign accord as the AFA moves forward on affiliation with CWA. The process calls for approval by the AFA executive board, board of directors and members. Present for the signing: CWA Sec.-Treas.

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Union Membership Lightens Load for Skycaps

More than 50 million Americans are likely to be without health insurance within three years without a major overhaul of the nation's costly and inequitable health care system, according to a new report by a unique coalition of business, labor, consumers and politicians.