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CWA Local 7037 Steward Berlinda Garcia knew something was very wrong as she returned from a meeting 20 miles outside Los Alamos, N.M.
“As we drove back in, we saw a huge cloud of red over the whole town. As soon as we got to the office, we got word that everybody was being released.”

Officials of Union Network Inter-national — representing nearly 15 million telecom and information sector workers — met with the European Commission merger task force to further build their case against the proposed mega-merger of Sprint and MCI WorldCom.

Sprint bargaining units in New Jersey and Virginia have reached settlement on tentative agreements, reported T.O. Moses, CWA vice president for telecommunications. Ratification, expected in both units, will bring this round of Sprint bargaining to a successful conclusion.

Detroit’s locked-out newspaper workers are getting a huge show of support from the United Methodist Church, which is calling on its 8.4 million members to boycott the Gannett-owned USA Today newspaper.

CWA leaders are moving swiftly to ensure that members’ jobs will be protected in the wake of a proposed joint operating agreement between the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News, a plan the papers’ owners are asking its unions to support.