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Nearly 400 customer service representatives at Valor Telecommunications — a new, mostly Hispanic owned company comprising former GTE properties — have become CWA members.

CWA and new merger partner IUE — at the international, district and local levels — are rapidly finding ways to work together on legislation and politics, in organizing and in other programs to better represent all members of the now 740,000-member union.

Imagine being able to deal with your long distance phone company, your cable service, your wireless provider — maybe your local phone company, too — in a single telephone call.

One-stop shopping, with a minimum of canned music.

James E. Irvine announced at the CWA Executive Board meeting Jan. 10 that he was stepping down as vice president for Communications and Technologies, after 35 years of service to CWA.

Rather than fight a judge’s order barring him from relocating to Mexico, the owner of a Los Angeles-area jewelry company has agreed to stay put and bargain with his newly unionized employees.