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James M. Massey, who retired in 1971 as a CWA executive vice president, has died after a long illness. He was 91. Massey worked as an installer at the Western Electric Co. for 20 years, traveling all over the United States with the company before being hired by CWA.

A pregnancy discrimination suit involving more than 400 women who work or worked for Cincinnati Bell — most of them CWA members — is close to being resolved.

Hours after word spread that Joseph Lieberman was Vice President Al Gore’s pick for a running mate, the Connecticut senator proudly took the podium at a gathering of his home state’s AFL-CIO members.

Four years ago, George W. Bush was ready to cut thousands of CWA members’ jobs from the state payroll in a scheme to privatize state social services.

As CWA members walked the picket lines, some analysts and news reports questioned, as the New York Times did in its strike coverage on Aug.