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Three CWA members have been suspended by local trial panels for “dual unionism,” an offense specified in Article 19 of the union’s constitution.

The story of Bettina Latham permeates a bargaining table in Wilmington, N.C., where CWA leaders are trying to negotiate a first contract with Sprint on behalf of 300 service representatives organized last year.

In a rare action against a newspaper, OSHA is urging the Buffalo News to make changes in its mailroom operations to reduce ergonomic problems.

CWA President Morton Bahr, consumer advocate Ralph Nader and a number of leading Internet experts stressed that the proposed MCI/WorldCom merger must be rejected because it would allow the combined company to wield monopoly control over critical Internet backbone services.

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