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Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam was put on notice this week by more than 150 leaders from the religious, higher education, and civil and workers' rights communities who said, it's time for Verizon to "do the right thing and negotiate a fair contract."

As of this week, 51 House members have signed on to co-sponsor the U.S. Call Center Worker and Consumer Protection Act, H.R. 3596.

Embarq/CenturyLink technicians from Winter Park, Fla., won CWA Local 3176 representation, following a Jan. 27 decision by the National Labor Relations Board that their 60-59 election victory should stand.

A three-year contract at El Diario newspaper in Brooklyn, N.Y. was ratified by Newspaper Guild of New York, TNG-CWA Local 31003 members last week. Approved by a two-to-one margin, the agreement ends seven months of tense negotiations at the newspaper, the nation's oldest Spanish-language daily.

The first of four regional Good Jobs, Green Jobs conferences sponsored by the Blue Green Alliance opens in Atlanta, Feb. 23-24.