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In preparation for early bargaining with SBC Communications, CWA local union officers and committee members from four districts discussed bargaining goals and strategies at the national SBC bargaining conference in San Diego Nov. 9-10.

CWA Local 14177 successfully beat back an attempt by an independent union to reclaim representation rights at the New Era Cap Co.’s Derby, N.Y., plant by a vote of 290 for CWA, 77 for the independent and one for “no union.”

Three months into their first CWA contract, more than 400 employees of the San Manuel Indian Casino in San Bernardino, Calif., are enjoying healthy raises and a new sense of job security.

NABET-CWA Local 59053 won a settlement at KMEX-TV in Los Angeles that ended a nearly month-long strike at the Univision-owned station.

Victories elsewhere:

• District 1. Forty-three employees at the Jewish Press in Brooklyn, N.Y., won voluntary recognition for wall-to-wall representation at the facility. They will be represented by CWA Printing Sector Local 6 (CWA 14156).