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2008 Annual Report of the President To the members of the Printing, Publishing & Media workers Sector, CWA
As we all know by now, the destructive anti-regulation policies of the Bush Administration and its Republican allies in Congress put the national economy into a tailspin, invited gross speculation by Wall Street and opened the floodgates to enable the greediest and most unsavory financial players to plunder the banking and finance sectors. These policies made a handful of people very wealthy while they destroyed jobs and lives, and undermined every domestic industry.
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Hunter Phillips Longtime Mailer Coordinator Retires
Veteran Sector staffer R. Hunter Phillips retired on May 1, 2009, after 18 years on the Sector staff and more than 44 years in the industry.
A Viet Nam vet, Phillips joined Washington Mailers Local M-29 in 1963, serving his apprenticeship at the Washington Daily News. After his discharge from the Air Force, he worked for the Detroit News, returning after one year to work for the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.
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NPP Trustees Act to Protect Fund In Face of Ongoing Economic Crisis
Trustees for the CWA/ITU Negotiated Pension Plan have directed the NPP to take several actions to keep the plan actuarially sound in the face of continued declines in capital markets. Among the steps announced by the Trustees in a letter to all plan stakeholders dated April 9, 2009, were:
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