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A long campaign of solidarity for NABET-CWA members at NBC Universal has paid off, as the union and company reached a tentative agreement this week with wage and job security improvements. The last contract expired March 31, 2009.

With a campaign that is flooding the Indiana statehouse with thousands of activists every day, CWA and other unions are determined to stop Republican leaders from ramming an anti-union "right-to-work" bill through the legislature.

Focusing on ways to return jobs to the United States, a White House forum on "insourcing" this week highlighted the return of 400 US Airways reservations jobs to Winston-Salem, N.C., Phoenix, Ariz., and Reno, Nev.

Registration is open for the 2012 CWA/USW Health and Safety Conference in Pittsburgh, Pa., March 5-9. This year's conference, hosted jointly every other year by CWA and the Steelworkers, focuses on identifying workplace hazards and will offer workshops on hazard mapping, heat stress, ergonomics, hazardous materials and other topics.

To get better pay, benefits and working conditions, former Alltel workers at AT&T Mobility are continuing to join CWA through majority sign-up.