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A unit of nearly 200 workers at the new AT&T Mobility customer care center in Davenport, Iowa, organized with CWA Local 7110 in just one day, according to District 7 Administrative Director Kevin Mulligan. A majority of the workers – over 70 percent – signed up through card check on April 14 and the election was certified by the American Arbitration Association this week.

AFA-CWA is calling on Congress to urge Delta Airlines executives to remain neutral in the current union representation election among Delta flight attendants, and further to monitor management's behavior, noting that bargaining rights are vital for flight attendants to be able to negotiate over the impact of the proposed Delta-Northwest Airlines merger.

CWA New Jersey state workers were among 500 demonstrators who rallied Wednesday outside the Statehouse in Trenton to urge Gov. Jon Corzine and the Department of Environmental Protection not to close nine state parks as part of a budget-cutting move.

CWA members will be turning out in force for the Verizon, Idearc and IBM shareholder meetings next week, taking on issues that include out-of-control stock options, corporate governance and executive pay as well as anti-labor policies.

The nation's workplaces remain unsafe, and current safety laws and penalties are too weak to protect workers. That's the conclusion of the AFL-CIO's annual "Death on the Job" report, which provides grim statistics on how many workers were killed and injured on the job in the past year, as well as information on penalties assessed for serious violations and other data.