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CWA, Buffalo Area Unions Create Healthy Alternative
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April 1, 1998
"We realized that we were paying more and more for less and less coverage.”
Beirne Board Creates 70 New Scholarships
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April 1, 1998
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.
‘Ready or Not’ is Ready
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April 1, 1998
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.
Congressional Fellowship Deadline Extended
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April 1, 1998
The Women’s Research and Education Institute has extended its deadline to apply for congressional fellowships until June 30. One of seven such grants for women pursuing graduate degrees is reserved each year for a CWA member or dependent by WREI.
SEC Directs Knight-Ridder to Include TNG-CWA Proposal in Shareholder Proxy
Knight-Ridder must include in its proxy to shareholders a proposal by The Newspaper Guild-Communications Workers of America that links executive compensation to the chain's adherence to principles of community accountability and responsibility and other tenets of good journalism.