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Great place to work. You can wear jeans to the office, grab a free soda any time, play basketball or volleyball on breaks. Most of the computer jocks who work on Microsoft's 260-acre Redland, Wash. campus are real go-getters, and many work 50 or 60 hours a week. There's only one catch.

A federal court in New York City on Oct. 21 approved the negotiated settlement of a lawsuit filed last year by CWA and 53 employees of Nynex (now part of Bell Atlantic as result of a merger) growing out of disputes under the Family and Medical Leave Act.

In its first public report, The Newspaper Guild-CWA's newly formed Committee on the Future of Journalism asserts that, "American journalism is going through a period of self-analysis and conscience-searching that is comparable only to the period of the 1950s when Sen. Joseph R.

CWA members who recently staged a successful 26-day strike against the Southern New England Telephone Co. have joined forces with a consumer group to raise questions about whether windfall profits should be set aside to improve service or provide customer refunds.

Passenger service professionals at US Airways are making excellent strides toward the goals agents set out to achieve in negotiations with the airline.