News

Fast track trading authority passed the U.S. Senate on May 23 but not without amendments that could water down the power it may ultimately give President George W. Bush to negotiate trade pacts.

Members of TNG-CWA Local 32035 — editorial and commercial workers at the Washington Post — are joined by Mr. Peanut in an informational picket line outside the newspaper’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.

In the May 2002 edition of the CWA News:

• The date that the new interest rate for cash balance retirement accounts at AT&T takes effect was misreported. The correct date is Jan. 1, 2003.
  

CWA local union presidents representing US Airways members and CWA staff are meeting with management to discuss the airline’s plans to continue operations. The carrier, hit hard by the industry downturn that followed the Sept.

CWA members are continuing their campaign of mobilization and activism at corporate annual meetings this season.