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Historic Win: Workers Prevail Despite AT&T Wireless Abuses
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September 1, 1999
Despite a full-fledged anti-union campaign by AT&T Wireless management, workers in West Palm Beach, Fla., scored a victory in the first organizing campaign at Wireless using expedited election provisions negotiated last year. The vote tally was 64 to 54.
CWA Members Back on the Air at KPFA
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September 1, 1999
CWA Local 9415 members in Berkeley, Calif., who work for radio station KPFA, marched back to work in late July after being locked out for more than three weeks by Pacifica Foundation, the network which owns KPFA and four other stations.
CWA to Continue Helping Passenger Agents Win Union Representation at American Airlines
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September 1, 1999
CWA will continue assisting American Airlines passenger service agents in their drive to unionize despite a ruling denying the union's request for an immediate rerun election based on flagrant abuses by management during the previous representation vote late last year.
61st Convention Leading the Way into the 21st Century
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September 1, 1999
CWA prepared to enter the 21st century as a strong, enduring - and growing - labor organization as nearly 2,500 delegates met in Miami Beach, Fla., July 12-14, for its 61st annual convention.
Bargaining to Organize' a Winning Strategy
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September 1, 1999
Workers from US Airways, American Airlines, AT&T's newest cable and telecom operations, and Microsoft brought their energy and enthusiasm for a CWA voice to the convention, as delegates focused on organizing and ways to continue to build the labor movement.