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Job stress, ergonomics and using Internet resources to improve job safety were among the topics at the annual CWA Occupational Safety and Health Conference, held in early May in Cleveland.

Delmar K. “Jim” Gordon, retired vice president of CWA District 7, died May 7 of pneumonia, at a nursing home near his family in Omaha. He was 92.

A writer who went to jail for nearly six months to protect her sources and the First Amendment, reporters who exposed a cancer center’s fatal wrongdoing and a pair of promising young journalists were honored in May at The Newspaper Guild-CWA’s first Freedom Award Fund Banquet.

One CWA family suffered a double tragety in the Sept. 11 terror attacks in New York City. Tina Grazioso, a former US Airways employee and member of CWA Local 1171 in Syracuse, N.Y., lost both her husband and brother-in-law at the World Trade Center, reported local President Rose Mary Nickerson.

CWA leaders in Oregon were key to an effort to reshape and revitalize the state’s labor movement at a May conference in Portland, where more than 200 delegates from 45 unions and labor councils approved an historic “New Alliance” for labor, the AFL-CIO reported.