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Growing up in Pennsylvania's coal mining country, Ken Moffett remembers his father - a labor organizer - taking him to union meetings with lots of smoking and hollering and conversation he couldn't understand.

Larkie Gildersleeve, a pioneer in the fight for workplace ergonomics, has retired as director of research, information and technology for The Newspaper Guild-CWA.

There's a new way that customers can join the labor movement's campaign to help Dish Network employees gain the respect they deserve.

When CWA President Morton Bahr approves a staff retirement, he usually just signs his name. In the case of Assistant to the President Hugh Walsh, Bahr appended to his signature - with a double underscore - the word "reluctantly." Walsh retired Dec. 31 at age 55.

Cancer Claims Theodore 'Tevie' Volk, Veteran CWA Leader in South
Theodore "Tevie" Volk Jr., who rose from the ranks at Southern Bell to become vice president of CWA's former District 10, died at his Talladega, Ala., home Dec. 7 after a nine-month battle with lung cancer. He was 80.