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David H. Gray, assistant to Printing, Publishing and Media Workers Sector President Bill Boarman, has announced his retirement. Gray began his career as an apprentice at the Detroit News in 1956 and joined Detroit Typographical Union 18 (CWA Local 14503) in 1957.

More than 1,400 people crowded into Our Lady of Mercy Church in Rochester, N.Y. on Nov. 8 to bid farewell to widely respected labor leader Robert J. Flavin, president of Rochester, Local 1170.

After a two-year campaign by UPTE/CWA Local 9119, District 9 and the union's Public and Health Care Workers Sector, San Francisco is getting its community hospital back, the local is regaining 200 health care members, and 300 administrative employees are once again likely candidates for CWA represen

A CWA shop steward who was campaigning for Democrats on Election Day in northeast New Jersey was shoved and threatened by two armed men he has identified as sheriff's deputies, charges that federal authorities are investigating.

Workers at Adelphia Cable in Los Angeles made a big leap toward closing the pay gap between cable and telecom workers with a new contract that delivers an immediate wage boost averaging 33 percent.