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Floyd A. Tucker Jr., past international vice president of The Newspaper Guild, died in California on Sept. 30, several months after being diagnosed with a brain tumor. He was 76.

Selina Burch Stanford, whose CWA staff career spanned more than three decades, died Oct. 20 of cancer at Hospice Atlanta. She was 75.

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The Newspaper Guild-CWA, and its conference co-sponsors, the American Federation of Teachers and the AFL-CIO’s Department for Professional Employees, have targeted four specific threats to free expression and professional rights that they have vowed to fight:

• Proposed FCC policy changes that

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