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After a year, still confronting an intransigent management at the bargaining table, CWA's Printing Sector is mobilizing the full Washington, D.C., Council of Newspaper Unions to win a fair contract for 400 mailers and helpers at the Washington Post.

The National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C., has ruled that a small cluster of Verizon Wireless stores in California constitute an appropriate unit for collective bargaining, District 9 Vice President Tony Bixler reported.

Florida's hanging chads may have been one of the culprits in the 2000 election debacle, but at least there were paper ballots to be examined and counted when the polls closed.

Ignoring a national outcry from working families and bipartisan opposition in Congress, the Bush administration has gone forward with changes in overtime law that could strip millons of workers of their right to a 40-hour workweek.

In a first-of-its-kind ruling, the National Labor Relations Board said that university student researchers may be unionized along with non-student employees in a combined unit, backing an election filing by CWA Local 1104 at the State University of New York.