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CWA locals took advantage of the holiday season to spread a message of union solidarity and support for Verizon Wireless workers who have been blocked in their bid for representation by the company's hostility to a union.

NABET-CWA Local 51011 in New York City on Jan. 21 announced a voluntary recognition for about 19 employees at Quantum Technology Inc.

Imagine an employer holding you responsible for institutionalizing its developmentally disabled clients because you chose to vote for a union. That's the guilt trip organizers say was laid on 72 direct care workers employed in group homes run by St. John's Community Services.

CWA defeated the Fraternal Order of Police, 54-51, on Jan. 19, as 104 deputies and sergeants in the Dona Ana County, N.M., Sheriff's Department chose the union that would represent their bargaining unit of 110.

CWA's Executive Board called on union leaders and activists at all levels to keep up the momentum from the 2004 political mobilization. In a resolution, the board warned against letting grassroots political structures atrophy in the face of the "looming fight against the privatization of Social Security, the fight for good jobs, universal access to affordable health care, and the all-important fight to protect the freedom of workers to freely join a union…."