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CWA is urging Senate support for a measure introduced by Sen. John Breaux (D-La.) that will remove the disparity in the rules and regulations governing companies that provide broadband services to consumers.

CWA and, indeed, the entire labor movement lost a great friend on May 1 with the passing of Roman Catholic Monsignor George G. Higgins. He was 86.

Florine Koole, one of CWA’s early female staff representatives who rose to be assistant to the executive vice president, died at her Edina, Minn., home of cancer on May 8. She was 79.

Luther Dale Magee, who rose from a Southwestern Bell repair technician to become vice president of then-CWA District 12, died May 15 of cancer at a hospice near his home in Arlington, Texas. He was 73.

Delmar K. “Jim” Gordon, retired vice president of CWA District 7, died May 7 of pneumonia, at a nursing home near his family in Omaha. He was 92.