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1. CWU Leader 'Shot in Colombia Stunt'. CWU
   
2. C&W calls up NATO's Lord Robertson. Herald, 30/06/03
   
3. Vodafone cuts 480 jobs. BBC, 25/06/03
   
4. Orange forecasts higher profits. BBC, 24/06/03
   
5. Amicus Backs CWU Campaign to Halt Jobs Export. CWU, 24/06/03
   
6. 70 jobs 'at risk' at Telewest . Register, 20/06/03
   
7. Wallace takes hit on C&W Severance Pay. EuroNet, 19/06/03
   
8. Profile: Tony Grace, Telewest Business Communications, MD. Accountancy Age, 19/06/03
   
9. Vodafone boss pockets £10m pension. BBC, 13/06/03
   
10. Investors turn on Telewest bosses. Guardian, 12/06/03
    
11. Unions congratulate Telewest union activists. CWU - Communications Workers of America
    
12. CWU Win at Telewest. CWU - Communications Workers of America
    
13. Telewest to amend debt deal. BBC, 10/06/03
    
14. Frustrated bondholders demand even more equity from Telewest. Independent, 10/06/03
    
15. Reconnecting C&W. Telegraph, 08/06/03
    
16. C&W surgery costs 1,500 jobs. Guardian, 05/06/03
    
17. Cable & Wireless offloads PCCW stake. Ananova, 05/06/03
    
18. BT faces 'fat cat' row. Ananova, 05/06/03
    
19. C&W cuts 1,500 UK jobs. BBC, 04/06/03
    
20. Cable & Wireless to Exit U.S., Cut Dividend, Jobs. Bloomberg, 04/06/03
    
21. Unions attack mobile phone firm T-Mobile. BBC, 02/06/03
    
22. Stenham out in Telewest purge. Observer, 01/06/03
    
23. Solidarity with workers at Telecom company PCCW in Hong Kong. UNI
    
24. TELEWEST ENGINEERS VOTE YES! FOR UNION RECOGNITION. UNI, 30/05/03
    
25. Microsoft loses £1.5bn on Telewest stake. Guardian, 29/05/03
    
26. T-Mobile employees lose vote for an independent voice - "setback" say unions Unions in T-Mobile UK
    
27. T-Mobile fights UK union bid with US union-busters TBG. The Register
    
28. How California Nurses beat TBG. California Nurses Association
    
29. The Burke Group's union hit list - what TBG don't want you to see. TBG
    
30. Ericsson to cut another 14,000 jobs. The Register, 29/04/03
    
31. Orange sales boost France Telecom. BBC, 29/04/03
    
32. Iraq Could Boost U.S. Telecoms. Salt Lake Tribune, 29/04/03
    
33. More workers set to gain from new learning rights. TUC, 28/04/2003
    
34. BT dresses up to go shopping again. Daily Telegraph, 28/04/03
    
35. TUC and Pirc join rolling protests against boardroom pay policies. Guardian, 28/04/03
    
36. 3G boss axed after launch flops. Mail on Sunday, 27/04/03
    
37. UK 3G firm loses £150m loan. BBC, 25/04/03
    
38. Singer pocketed £1.8m Telewest payoff. Guardian, 23/04/03
    
39. T-Mobile Still on Track for Success – Despite "Union Busters". CWU, 17/04/03
    
40. USA: Telecom Labor Rising. CWA - Communications Workers of America, & UNI - Union Network International, 15/04/03
    
41. STUC: First rise in trade union numbers since 1980. Herald, 14/04/03
    
42. O2 sells Dutch subsidiary. Manchester Online, 14/04/03
    
43. C&W loses further Caribbean monopoly. Scotsman, 14/04/03
    
44. BT allies with Cable & Wireless IDC in corporate telecom service. iii, 14/04/03
    
45. Worldcom has cunning plan: to come back as MCI. Euronet, 14/04/03
    
46. Opal Telecom aims to shine up north. Sunday Herald, 13/04/03
    
47. High Court Calls Off BT Strike. CWU, 11/04/03
    
48. BT wins injunction over strikes. Ananova, 11/04/03
    
49. Postcomm asks what Universal Service Means. CWU, 11/04/03
    
50. Union Busters brought in at T-Mobile UK. UNI - Union Network International
    
51. Takeover speculation lifts O2. Guardian, 11/04/03
    
52. C&W shares rise as chief departs. The Post, 11/04/03
    
53. TUC calls for tougher race laws. BBC, 11/04/03
    
54. NTL 128Kbps connection 'not broadband' says ASA. Europemedia, 10/04/03
    
55. Ex-Telewest Adam Singer boss snaps up watchdog job. This is London
    
56. Court bid to halt BT strikes. Ananova, 10/04/03
    
57. Top Brass Help Launch First London BT Learning Centre. CWU, 10/04/03
    
58. Union Proved Right Over Scope of Job Losses to India. CWU, 08/04/03
    
59. Wallace holds out for £1.5m from C&W. Guardian, 08/04/03
    
60. £90,000 for Royal Mail's Bob Wigley. CWU, 08/04/03
    
61. Lerwill facing sack at C&W. Scotsman, 07/04/03
    
62. NTL employee put on leave after inquiry. Scotsman, 07/04/03
    
63. Piper's last blast as BT goes global. Ananova, 07/04/03
    
64. UK mobile giant O2 seeks £7.5bn Dutch merger. Observer, 06/04/03
    
65. New C&W boss could earn £1.7m. Cheshire online, 03/04/03
    
66. BT to cut cost of broadband. Ananova, 03/04/03
    
67. Telecoms veteran Francesco Caio to take charge at C&W. Scotsman, 02/04/03
    
68. BT 'second best', says Telewest. Register, 02/04/03
    
    

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69. Telecom: Failure of the WTO's Poster Child - An analysis by Sid Shniad, Research Director, Telecommunications Workers Union, Vancouver, British Columbia. April 2002
    
70. Marketing Trade Unions - a Manual by Allen Pascoe
    
71. What are Interest-Based Negotiations? New Zealand trade unionist Allen Pascoe explains what they are and why we should be interested in them.
    
72. Monopoly and Competition in British Telecommunications by John Harper. The former Director of BT's Inland Division defends the record of publicly owned telecommunications. Reproduced with permission from his recent book.
    
73. "Return of the Job Killers" - and we thought we knew the meaning of 'convergence'.... (published in May/June, 1996, Scottish Trade Union Review )
    
74. "Communications, Computing and Broadcasting" - Digits and Jobs: a severe case of compression (published March/April, 1996, Trade Union News)
    
75. "Organising on The Internet!" - threats and challenges facing telecommunications workers, and some new(?) organising ideas (published in February/March, 1996, Focus - magazine of the Communications Workers Union )
    
76. "Wired, Weird and Wonderful - Thomas Paine and the Internet" - some thoughts following an article in WIRED magazine (published in Focus, (CWU) and Scottish Trade Union Review, 1995)
    

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