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In letters to Congress recently, CWA asked lawmakers to back a proposed prescription drug benefit for Medicare recipients and urged a subcommittee to throw out a bill that would shut down low-power FM radio stations.

Susan Saylor laughs when she remembers what she said at the first union organizing meeting she attended five years ago.

“I said, ‘I’ll try to help, but my name can’t appear anywhere,’” Saylor recalled. “And now, here I am, my name is everywhere.”

New officers and alternates have joined the executive board of CWA’s Retired Members’ Council, a nationwide group that takes political action to help working families and seniors.

CWA locals have put hundreds of volunteers in the field, working with AFL-CIO central labor bodies, to get out the vote for presidential candidate Al Gore and state and local candidates who put working families high on their agenda.

Super Bowl XXXIV. Tie game, 16-16. Rams’ possession. First down at their own 27.