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The disastrous state of the economy, the health care crisis, the shameful assaults on workers' rights and the urgent need to turn things around in November took center stage at CWA's 2004 Legislative-Political Conference in Washington D.C., March 28-31.

NLRB ruled for the first time 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.

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.

The Senate voted overwhelmingly March 30 to add $6 billion in child care funds to the welfare reauthorization bill being debated, an issue that CWA activists attending the Legislative-Political Conference fought for on Capitol Hill.

CWA members are among unemployed workers touring the Midwest with the AFL-CIO's "Show Us the Jobs" bus campaign to get the word out that every day more than 85 thousand Americans are losing their jobs.