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CWA warned that the University of California is undermining the quality of its research programs - and jeopardizing advances in medicine, the sciences and technology - by its employment and funding practices.

The bid by Alltel Corp. to take over Nebraska-based Aliant Communications Inc. would harm both consumers and employees and should be rejected, CWA told the Federal Communications Commission.

The U.S. Department of Justice has given the go-ahead to the merger of SBC Communications and Ameritech.

After a marathon 21-hour stretch of negotiations, TNG-CWA's Canadian Media Guild narrowly averted a strike at the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., with a settlement on March 19 that boosts salaries by 10 percent over 34 months for the approximately 3,700 TV and radio journalists and administrative worke

CWA local unions representing workers at local Sprint Commu-nications Co. operations launched a mobilization campaign on Mar. 22, aimed at winning fair contracts and respect from Sprint.