News

CWA President Morton Bahr's book, "From the Telegraph to the Internet," continues to attract considerable attention and has been the recipient of several noteworthy reviews since its publication last fall in commemoration of CWA's 60th anniversary.

Several CWA staff, including those below, have recently retired. Staff retirement notices will continue in the next CWA News.

NABET-CWA and ABC Inc., have reached tentative agreement on new contracts covering workers in five bargaining units that previously rejected the company's December 1998 proposal.

Participants at this year's National Marketing Conference in Nashville, Tenn., explored the impact and promise of new technology and discussed ways CWA can best handle such industry practices as sales incentives, bundling and more.

Unless some serious downturn occurs soon, the last year of the 20th Century will go down in record books as the best economic year in America's history. Record stock market gains made a few people very rich; the lowest unemployment rate in 25 years gave evidence that America was back at work.