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Down-to-the-wire bargaining has led to a new contract for 500 CWA members at Alltel Corp. in Lincoln, Neb.

Imagine you’re a housebound senior disabled by a fall, but eager to walk again. Your chances of recovery are good because you’ve got an experienced physical therapist visiting your home three times a week.

CWA has renegotiated the historic national agreement reached with GTE in 1998, winning major retirement security gains and other improvements in a tentative pact covering 24,000 employees at the former GTE units of Verizon.

As the top teams in baseball headed into the World Series, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney and CWA President Morton Bahr joined Local 14177 members in appealing to Major League players for help to end the union’s strike against New Era Cap Co.

CWA has won back 16 positions at AT&T through an expedited arbitration process that union leaders expect to yield more union jobs that have been misclassified as “management.” The arbitration procedure resulted from settlement of a CWA lawsuit last April.