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Concurrent with the purchase of the Puerto Rico Telephone Company by GTE, the 4,800-member Independent Union of Telephone Workers (UIET) has signed an Alliance agreement with CWA that will establish a partnership in community-based coalition building, organizing and collective bargaining.

Justice is a step closer for hundreds of members suspended by Bell Atlantic for mobilizing against the company's downsizing in 1994 by cutting 5,600 workers.

There's a real David and Goliath story going on in Beaumont, Tex., where members of CWA Local 6139 are in a tough fight at Helena Laboratories.

Coercion, intimidation of CWA supporters and "virulent anti-union propaganda" were just some of the illegal tactics American Airlines used to counter the drive by agents to win CWA representation. CWA has outlined objections to management's actions to the National Mediation Board.

Ninety-two union-represented Bell Atlantic workers in New York state were honored at ceremonies at Hudson Valley Community College, Jan. 12, as they became the first graduating class of a precedent-setting higher education and training program.