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Retired Vice President Brown Dies
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March 1, 1998
Willard W. Brown, a one-time CWA vice president and long-time local leader and union staffer, died Jan. 27 in a hospital near the family home in Lawrenceville, Ga., at age 82.
El Nino Triumph and Tragedy
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March 1, 1998
Flooding in California, ice storms in the Northeast. The CWA family thought it had seen the worst of El Niño by Feb. 23, when tornadoes ripped across central Florida, killing two of its members.
Contract Talks Underway at US Airways; Agents at American, United Look to CWA
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February 1, 1998
The first round of bargaining between CWA and US Airways got underway Dec. 9 and 10 at the company’s headquarters in Arlington, Va.
Merged MCI/WorldCom Would Control Internet, Stifle Competition, CWA Charges in FCC Filing
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February 1, 1998
Concerns raised by CWA about the dangerous impact of the proposed takeover of MCI Communications Corp. by WorldCom Inc. are gaining attention and support, both in the United States and internationally.
SBC and AT&T Begin New Year with Bold Bids
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February 1, 1998
If television news covered business and industry the same way it covers murder and mayhem, we’d turn on our sets every night and catch up on what’s happening in the Great Telecom-munications War of the 1990s. Take these examples: