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Michigan Man CWA's "Strongest"
News
January 1, 2003
Brian Amundsen, a member of CWA Local 4032 and a communications technician for SBC in Dowagiac, Mich., certainly has a claim to the title of CWA's Strongest Man.
Shake Etch-A-Sketch Off the Gift List
News
January 1, 2003
A gift list of products made by union workers in last month's CWA News included the long-popular Etch-A-Sketch toy. We've since learned that the company has moved its production to China. Etch-A-Sketch, a product of the Ohio Art Company, had been made in Bryan, Ohio, since 1960.
Mark Your Calendars
News
January 1, 2003
It's that time of year when you hang your new calendars. With that in mind, here's an important date in the labor and civil rights movement for every month of the year.
- January 15 - Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was born on this date in 1929.
General Electric Elected as 2002 Grinch of the Year
Press Release
Washington, D.C. - In nationwide balloting, General Electric was elected as the 2002 "Grinch of the Year" for causing the most harm to working families through substantial shifting of health care costs onto workers and retirees.
CWA Resolution Prompts Verizon Reform
News
December 20, 2002
Pressure from CWA has stimulated a change in Verizon's accounting practices.