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Two days before Sen. Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash Oct. 25, CWA President Morton Bahr stood with him at a union rally in Minneapolis, the kind of people-powered, high-energy, spirited event that Wellstone relished.

Months of hard work by CWA and fellow union members helped a number of working family candidates to victory Nov. 5, particularly at the state level, but their efforts couldn’t match unprecedented campaign spending — $710 million — by business interests.

IUE-CWA members locked out by Fenn Manufacturing in Newington, Conn., are getting strong support from the state’s congressional delegation, Republicans and Democrats.

An eight-week strike that all but shut down the Victoria Times-Colonist in British Columbia has been settled, but striking members of The Newspaper Guild-CWA at two Ontario papers and locked-out workers at another were maintaining picket lines as the CWA News went to press.

CWA has called on Sprint Corp. to put its public praise for local telephone company employees into action at the bargaining table, where workers in several units continue to fight for fair contracts.