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Two CWA members — one of them a local president — have emerged as heroes in recent months, and both involved water rescues.

CWA has gone to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to urge the agency to adopt more stringent regulations to block the spread of tuberculosis on behalf of one of the union’s fastest-growing segments — health care workers.

"We realized that we were paying more and more for less and less coverage.”

Members of the board of directors of the Joseph Anthony Beirne Memorial Foundation got a $210,000 infusion of new money from CWA’s general treasury at the foundation’s annual meeting on March 16 — and promptly turned the funds into 70 additional first-year scholarships valued at $3,000 each.

The revised version of “Ready or Not,” a book designed to ease a person’s passage from work to retirement, is now available for $8.95 plus $1.25 shipping and handling from the Manpower Education Institute, 715 Ladd Road, Bronx, N.Y. 10471.