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Urging members throughout New Jersey to "Stand Up for Justice in '99," CWA's statewide Committee of 1,000 unveiled plans to intensify its ongoing mobilization in support of bargaining for fair pay raises, job security and improved benefits, with a shock wave hitting all state agencies March 25.

CWA warned that the University of California is undermining the quality of its research programs - and jeopardizing advances in medicine, the sciences and technology - by its employment and funding practices.

Gov. Parris Glendening, on his way to dedicate The Washington Post's new $230 million printing plant in College Park, Md., March 8, stopped to encourage TNG-CWA Local 35 members who demonstrated outside.

Members of CWA Local 6139, on strike at Helena Laboratories in Beaumont, Texas, want the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to force the company to clean up its act - and the dangerous working conditions at the plant.

In 1994, Kathy Sterling, president of CWA Local 4203, took time out for an extended trip to Washington. Kathy was working on her master's degree in conflict resolution at Antioch University when she was selected for a Congressional Fellowship on Women and Public Policy.