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Minutes of the CWA District 6 Occupational Safety and Health Conference Call conducted on Friday, April 13, 2012.

On June 5, Tony Mazzocchi, formerly with the OCAW and a genuine safety and health hero, was inducted into the U.S. Department of Labor's Hall of Honor.

Deutsche Telekom (DT) and T-Mobile workers in Germany, members of ver.di, won a 6.5 percent pay increase over two years, with talks continuing for workers at DT?s T-Systems unit.

AT&T contract negotiations have gone into overtime, but so has mobilization by CWA members and allies. As the CWA News went to press June 18, separate negotiations are continuing covering CWA members in District 4, AT&T Midwest; District 9, AT&T West; Telecommunications and Technologies, AT&T Legacy, and District 1, AT&T East.

Two months ago, CWA Local 6355 President Bradley Harmon was one of the tens of thousands of Americans who gathered in houses of worship, college dorms, living rooms and union halls to learn about the a new movement called the 99 Percent Spring. At the day-long training, he studied the roots of the nation?s economic crisis. He learned how to design a non-violent, direct action.