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CWA’s Joseph Anthony Beirne Foundation will award 30 scholarships of up to $3,000 for the 2000-2001 school year to active and retired CWA members, their spouses, children or grandchildren, or those of deceased members.

It seems like everyone is getting into the act, but not everyone who appears in Canadian movies and television productions gets equal pay, benefits or job security under a strong union contract.

Counting heads in an urban high rise or suburban cul-de-sac isn’t the challenge of Census 2000. The real work is finding the homeless family living in a broken-down car, the migrant farm worker moving from job to job, the John Doe in a hospital ward or a prison cell.

Clerical worker Brenda Hicks didn’t worry at first when she saw more sheriffs’ deputies than usual roaming the Burlington County, N.J., Courthouse last Nov. 3. Then a supervisor told her why they were there.

A year after the negotiating team for The Newspaper Guild in Eugene, Ore., started to bargain a new contract with The Register-Guard, every major issue is still on the table.