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CWA delegates gave a rousing welcome to President William Jefferson Clinton, who used the CWA convention to provide the first public details of his plan to keep Medicare solvent while ensuring that it also keeps up with the advances of technology and modernization.

Organizing among health care workers, reform of commercial radio communications and support for efforts to strengthen Medicare and Social Security were among the resolutions adopted by CWA's 61st convention.

CWA prepared to enter the 21st century as a strong, enduring - and growing - labor organization as nearly 2,500 delegates met in Miami Beach, Fla., July 12-14, for its 61st annual convention.

Health care professionals at five medical centers of the University of California won their first contract, addressing major concerns about quality and patient care issues and winning a package of wage and benefit improvements.

Research professionals at the University of California have won a first contract that not only provides an across-the-board pay increase for all employees, but establishes a pay system that ensures the university will be accountable to researchers, the projects they work on and the public, which dep