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Union Talks with Bell Atlantic Continue Past Deadline
Press Release
Late progress last night in negotiations between the Communications Workers of America and Bell Atlantic/Verizon prompted bargainers to keep working past the strike deadline at 12:01 this morning in an effort to reach a settlement.
CWA President Announces Strike Deadline at Bell Atlantic: 72,000 Will Walk Out this Sunday if Pact I
Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Bell Atlantic/Verizon workers represented by the Communications Workers of America will begin a strike at 12:01 a.m. Sunday, August 6, if a collective bargaining agreement isn't reached beforehand, CWA President Morton Bahr announced.
Southern Cal Interpreters Vote to Join CWA
News
August 1, 2000
The newest group of court interpreters to join The Newspaper Guild-CWA left no doubt that they’re eager to be union members: Better than 99 percent of them voted “yes.”
“Doc” Sigler, Retired CWA Leader in South, Dies
News
August 1, 2000
W.C. “Doc” Sigler, who retired in 1978 as administrative assistant to the vice president of then- District 10, died June 10 in Birmingham, Ala., after a long illness. He was 85.
CWA Newsmakers
News
August 1, 2000
Hall Sisson, who came to CWA as a lobbyist in 1972 and later served as the union’s deputy political director, has retired. Sisson, who was born and raised in California, was working as a lobbyist for the National Aerospace Services Association when he learned of a job at CWA.