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TNG-CWA Local 35 on June 20 reached a tentative agreement with the Bureau of National Affairs, following more than four months of intense negotiations and mobilization, reported TNG-CWA Pres. Linda Foley. At lunchtime, just prior to settlement, the Metropolitan Washington, D.C.

CWA members at US Airways will have full guaranteed seniority protections — for both part-time and full-time workers — if the announced sale of their airline to United Airline goes forward.

Are technology and the new economy threatening the First Amendment? That was the underlying question at “Intellectual Workers and Essential Freedoms: Journalists and Academics in the 21st Century,” a conference in Washington, D.C.

The proposed mega-merger of WorldCom and Sprint has failed, blocked by CWA’s successful campaign that raised concerns among federal and state regulators in the United States and in the European Union.

Terez Woods

President, Local 4309

Cleveland, Ohio

Customer service representative Ameritech