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Ensuring that CWA members are safe and healthy on the job was the focus of two recent workshops, a weeklong session at the IUE-CWA Delphi Joint Activities Training Center in Dayton, Ohio, and a one-day seminar in San Jose, Calif., organized annually by California locals.

Workers’ advocates in the U.S. Senate are making progress toward an ergonomic standard, with one committee approving a bill requiring the U.S.

CWA President Morton Bahr recently gave members of the Senate Democratic Caucus a somber overview of the state of the telecommunications industry and called for action to improve high-speed Internet access to help stop the sector’s free fall.

It’s one of the best-kept secrets in health insurance today, but CWA, the Coalition of Labor Union Women and the AFL-CIO are working hard to spread the word: If employers’ health plans cover prescription drugs, they’ve also got to cover women’s birth control.

CWA is urging U.S. House members to support the Corporate Patriot Enforcement Act, H.R. 3884, which would limit the ability of companies to move their headquarters to foreign countries to avoid paying taxes in the United States.