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Meeting in southern California in early December to plan their 2004 bargaining and mobilization strategies, CWA leaders from SBC locals across the country pledged unity in their fight for job security and affordable health care.

CWA members at Comcast facilities at East Hills, in the Pittsburgh area, and in Port Huron, Mich., beat back tough decertification campaigns to keep their union, but workers at five Comcast locations in the Pittsburgh area voted to break off CWA representation.

Finding AT&T guilty of violating the neutrality and consent election agreement, an arbitrator has awarded immediate union recognition for 103 provisioning workers at AT&T Local Network Services in Orlando, Fla., and has ordered that recognition for a second unit of 74 maintenance workers be

Recent organizing victories have brought CWA representation to 600 new members.

CWA has won another battle with Sprint Corp. The regional National Labor Relations Board agreed to hear consolidated unfair labor practice charges against the company Jan. 12 regarding units in New Bern and Fayetteville, N.C., where contracts for more than 400 CWA members expired Sept.