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Hundreds of union members mobilized April 28 to stage protests on behalf of thousands of newspaper workers whose lives have been disrupted by two of the nation's largest media conglomerates, Knight Ridder and Gannett.

James G. Adams, whose career began as an "on air" personality 45 years ago and who retired as a NABET-CWA staff representative only 16 months ago, died of a heart ailment on May 4 at his home in Germantown, Md. He was 63.

While NABET-CWA mobilizers continue to chase Mickey Mouse from one end of the country to the other, NABET-CWA negotiators continue to press Disney/ ABC managers for a fair and decent contract to replace one that expired more than a year ago.

They used to call them 'entitlements,' but if you listen to Newt Gingrich these days, nobody's entitled to nothin'.

Right-wing forces and their allies in the House and Senate - with support from corporate America - have an anti-worker agenda that uses duplicitous packaging in an effort to try to fool the American people: