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Louis E. Moore, who has been CWA’s first and only international affairs director, has announced his decision to retire, effective Jan. 4, 1999.

Elizabeth Hays, who first went to work in 1923 at age 16 for Pacific Telephone Co. in Spokane, Wash., and retired 42 years later in 1965 as a CWA Representative, died Oct. 29 in Spokane. She had observed her 91st birthday eight days earlier.

Richard W. Hackler, a former CWA executive vice president who retired in 1985, died Nov. 18 near his Englewood, Colo., home following a lingering illness. He was 72.

All CWA represented Bell Atlantic/NYNEX employees who believe they were wrongfully denied FMLA leave from November 14, 1994 through October 1, 1998 or who were not informed about the option of FMLA leave and who wish to take part in the SPECIAL REVIEW PROCESS negotiated by CWA and the Company must f

More than 10,000 CWA members voluntarily participated in the union’s 1998 survey of repetitive motion health problems associated with computers — and the results are not good.