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In 1994, Kathy Sterling, president of CWA Local 4203, took time out for an extended trip to Washington. Kathy was working on her master's degree in conflict resolution at Antioch University when she was selected for a Congressional Fellowship on Women and Public Policy.

American taxpayers shouldn't have to subsidize the purchase of AirTouch Communications by the British company Vodafone, CWA declared in urging the Internal Revenue Service to deny AirTouch's request for a waiver of IRS rules to make the acquisition tax-free for shareholders.

Directors of the Joseph Anthony Beirne Memorial Foundation approved partial college scholarships of up to $3,000 each for 30 first-year and 100 second-year students, and also granted funding to eight projects devoted to labor education and workers' rights.

Members of CWA Local 6139, on strike at Helena Laboratories in Beaumont, Texas, want the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to force the company to clean up its act - and the dangerous working conditions at the plant.

Gov. Parris Glendening, on his way to dedicate The Washington Post's new $230 million printing plant in College Park, Md., March 8, stopped to encourage TNG-CWA Local 35 members who demonstrated outside.