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Concurrent with the purchase of the Puerto Rico Telephone Company by GTE, the 4,800-member Independent Union of Telephone Workers (UIET) has signed an Alliance agreement with CWA that will establish a partnership in community-based coalition building, organizing and collective bargaining.

CWA President Morton Bahr is one of President Clinton's five appointees to the newly created 21st Century Workforce Commission, which will conduct a study of the skill requirements and training needs of the information technology workforce.

Today's information age is bringing diverse groups of professionals to the realization that they are indeed (1) workers (2) who as individuals are often exploited and (3) who can improve their pay and working conditions by banding together. In other words, they need a union.

The deadline for all CWA-represented Bell Atlantic/NYNEX employees to participate in the SPECIAL FMLA REVIEW PROCESS has been extended to Feb. 15, 1999.

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.