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Eduardo Diaz, CWA’s international affairs director, died of a heart attack July 18 while attending an international conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was 41.

Detroit’s locked-out newspaper workers marked five years on the picket lines in July while coping with a severe blow from three federal judges, who overturned all unfair labor practice decisions against the papers’ management.

After hammering out a strong seven-year contract and exacting promises from the owners of the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News, CWA leaders are giving their blessing to the proposed merger of the two newspapers’ business operations — called a joint operating agreement.

CWA’s national campaign to convince AT&T to live up to its contract — along with the July 11 solidarity demonstrations that brought thousands of CWAers together with other union members in coast-to-coast demonstrations — has produced an important breakthrough for organizing and bargaining at new

CWA on June 5 reached its first agreement for workers organized under the neutrality and consent pact negotiated with AT&T following the company’s expansion into broadband, wireless and local telephone service.