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The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation has awarded its highest honor to CWA President Morton Bahr for his ?exemplary dedication to children and longtime support of the foundation.?

Verizon has started to send notices to thousands of women who may be eligible for additional benefits under a settlement reached in a class-action pregnancy discrimination lawsuit filed by CWA, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and other plaintiffs.

Employees of the Los Angeles-based Chinese Daily News, joined by many elected officials and community activists, took a strong stand in their fight for a union at an April 12 news conference.

CWA organizing surged ahead in the last month with three victories at Cingular Wireless, bringing to 4,100 the total number of Cingular workers gaining CWA representation in 2002.

It took three years, but court interpreters in Chicago finally have a union, having voted 51-29 to join the Chicago Newspaper Guild, TNG-CWA Local 34071. The unit represents 121 Cook County interpreters who collectively speak 50 languages, as well as sign language.