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"We did it" was the word from CWAers throughout New York State when the Department of Health announced that key hospitals in upstate New York – where CWA members work – would remain open.

A little over a year and a half since gaining collective bargaining rights in June 2006, Jackson, Mississippi's 1,200 city employees achieved another milepost in their remarkable struggle to organize and improve their jobs, negotiating their first union contract with the city. The workers are represented by CWA's Mississippi Alliance of State Employees (MASE-CWA Local 3570).

After battling a long list of concession demands for more than a year, Lexington (Ky.) Newspaper Guild leaders are urging approval of a tentative five-year agreement at the Lexington Herald-Leader that was worked out with the help of mediation last week. The local represents 90 newsroom workers who are set to vote on the pact next Tuesday.

A savvy political activist and outspoken feminist, Nelle P. Horlander, retired CWA Kentucky state director, died Jan. 21 at a care center in Louisville at age 78.

Apparently still fuming over having to fork over $65 million to settle a lawsuit by technical support employees who charged the company cheated them out of overtime, IBM discovered a way to pay them back.