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Canadian workers who want to research their country’s labor and employment laws now can turn to an innovative website for help, thanks to the efforts of TNG-CWA Local 248 in Peterborough, Ontario.

The Pulitzer Prize, journalism’s most coveted honor, has been awarded this year to seven reporters and photographers who belong to The Newspaper Guild, as well as three newsrooms with TNG-CWA contracts.

CWA Local 7037 Steward Berlinda Garcia knew something was very wrong as she returned from a meeting 20 miles outside Los Alamos, N.M.
“As we drove back in, we saw a huge cloud of red over the whole town. As soon as we got to the office, we got word that everybody was being released.”

Officials of Union Network Inter-national — representing nearly 15 million telecom and information sector workers — met with the European Commission merger task force to further build their case against the proposed mega-merger of Sprint and MCI WorldCom.

Sprint bargaining units in New Jersey and Virginia have reached settlement on tentative agreements, reported T.O. Moses, CWA vice president for telecommunications. Ratification, expected in both units, will bring this round of Sprint bargaining to a successful conclusion.