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Dear Pres. Bahr:

At its meeting in October the CWA Executive Board changed the CWA Internal Appeals Procedures as it relates to a complaint concerning a Vice President's decision not to take a grievance to arbitration.

NABET-CWA negotiators on Oct. 22 declared an end to an unprecedented, "limited issue" effort to reach an early contract agreement with NBC even as frustration was continuing to mount over the union's contract talks at ABC.

Service representatives and sales employees from across the nation sized up recent contract gains and redefined the union standard of quality customer service at CWA's National Marketing Conference, as they prepared to fight for the jobs of the future.

Nearly 200 operators from across the nation convened in Washington, D.C. for CWA's 17th Annual National Operators Conference, Oct. 17-21, focusing on the theme: "Operator Services, Determining Our Future in the New World of Telecommunications."