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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.

For transportation workers at Newark Airport, the road to a contract was a maddening fight against a company with no regard for labor law and a habit of refusing to sign agreements reached verbally at the bargaining table.

CWA members at Bell Atlantic over-whelmingly voted to authorize a strike at the company if negotiations fail to reach a new contract. The agreement covering some 72,000 Bell Atlantic workers expires Aug. 5; negotiations opened June 26.