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As the CWA News went to press, results of a national strike authorization vote among CWA members at AT&T were announced, with members authorizing possible strike action against the company by a better than 80 percent margin.

Responding to the objections of CWA members and consumers, the Federal Communications Commission denied an automatic grant of AT&T's bid to eliminate toll-free directory assistance service and called for further investigation.

The proposed merger of Sprint Corp. and MCI WorldCom is getting tough scrutiny from regulators, with some indicating that the merger might not gain approval from the U.S. Department of Justice or the Federal Communications Commission.

Sprint locals in North Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana and Oregon were in the process of taking a strike authorization vote as the CWA News went to press, even though a small unit of Sprint workers in Pennsylvania had voted to ratify a tentative agreement.

Despite the debate over when the third millennium officially begins (this January 1 or in 2001?), we're joining the rest of the media in marking the occasion now.