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The efforts of United Campus Workers-CWA Local 3865 have brought about 100 employees of the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture time-and-a-half pay if they work more than 40 hours a week. Classified as "agricultural production workers" under the Fair Labor Standards Act, they previously received overtime pay only if they worked more than 120 hours in a pay period.

Empire State College of the State University of New York is now accepting applications for the Morton Bahr Distance Learning Scholarship for the 2008-2009 academic year. Two new scholarships will be awarded this year.

In a historic vote recognizing municipal employees' organizing and bargaining rights, the city council for Jackson City, Miss., gave its approval this week to a tentative contract reached between CWA's Mississippi Alliance of State Employees (MASE-CWA Local 3570) and the city.

Three Verizon Business techs joined AFL-CIO President John Sweeney at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy Forum where they signed up more supporters in the fight for a union voice at Verizon.

Bargaining got underway this week for a first contract covering about 600 workers at AT&T Government Solutions in Dover, New Hampshire, represented by Local 1298.