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Last December, AllTel Corp. tried an end run around CWA members in Little Rock, Ark. — the company’s corporate headquarters — but the union team was ready.

The first round of bargaining between CWA and US Airways got underway Dec. 9 and 10 at the company’s headquarters in Arlington, Va.

Concerns raised by CWA about the dangerous impact of the proposed takeover of MCI Communications Corp. by WorldCom Inc. are gaining attention and support, both in the United States and internationally.

If television news covered business and industry the same way it covers murder and mayhem, we’d turn on our sets every night and catch up on what’s happening in the Great Telecom-munications War of the 1990s. Take these examples:

Teresa Y. Williford has earned a place in the history books, becoming the first person to ever win a worker’s compensation case based on mental stress against a major telecommunications company.