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Members of the board of directors of the Joseph Anthony Beirne Memorial Foundation got a $210,000 infusion of new money from CWA’s general treasury at the foundation’s annual meeting on March 16 — and promptly turned the funds into 70 additional first-year scholarships valued at $3,000 each.

"We realized that we were paying more and more for less and less coverage.”

CWA has gone to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to urge the agency to adopt more stringent regulations to block the spread of tuberculosis on behalf of one of the union’s fastest-growing segments — health care workers.

Two CWA members — one of them a local president — have emerged as heroes in recent months, and both involved water rescues.

New shop stewards who will represent the 10,000 passenger service representatives at US Airways meet at CWA headquarters for training on workplace representation and job issues, including an overview of employees’ rights under the Family & Medical Leave Act.