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Members of CWA Local 1183 at the New York City Board of Elections have been commended by the state Board of Elections and a national association for their actions in the hours, days and weeks after the terror attacks Sept. 11 — the day of the city’s mayoral primary.

Everyone likes coworkers who pull their own weight. But Senior Trooper Brian Allen of the West Virginia State Troopers Association/CWA Local goes beyond that. Recently at a strong man competition in Myrtle Beach, S.C., he pulled a 36,000-pound dump truck 100 feet in 31 seconds.

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.