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With Disney/ABC's agreement to end an 11-week lockout of 2,400 NABET-CWA members, the union called off its boycott of ABC TV and radio news shows on Jan. 15 and agreed to submit a contract offer from the network to members for a mail-ballot ratification vote.

Described by CWA leaders as "an historic step toward true national bargaining," the union has negotiated a company-wide agreement with GTE that provides for expedited union representation elections, boosts the 401(k) match to 66 percent, improves company tuition assistance and vacation banking provi

From all across the U.S., more than 1,200 workers from a range of industries have chosen to join CWA: wireless and casino employees in the West, day care workers in the Midwest, social work intake interviewers in the East, cable installers in the South.

The Postal Workers are celebrating a big success in Greensboro, N.C., where workers at East Coast Leasing, a private company under contract to the U.S. Postal Service, voted to join APWU.

J. Arthur (Art) Jamison, who founded a CWA local in Phoenix, Ariz., and went on to become an administrative assistant to the vice president of District 7, died on Dec. 3 in a nursing home in Olympia, Wash. He was 80 years old and had been in failing health for some months.